What's left for 1.0?

[Johan Granberg]

Bill Baxter wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>  > C can't do any of those things.
>>>
>>> Sure it can.
>>>
>>>>> * No way to initialize a static array without counting elements
>>>>>     static byte[???] imageData = [...];   // i hope you like counting!
>>>
>>> C has no problem with this.  I do it all the time:
>>>
>>>        static const unsigned char[] = { 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 255 };
>> 
>> True, but that's only because C doesn't have dynamic arrays. In D,
>> 
>> const char[] c = [ 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 255 ];
>> 
>> works fine, though it's a dynamic array.
> 
> Yep it's great that D has built-in dynamic arrays, but the point is that
> the syntax for dynamic arrays is getting in the way of static arrays,
> making something that's simple in C become hard in D.  If you want a
> static array you have no choice right now but to count up the elements,
> or deliberately use the wrong length to trigger compiler errors that
> will tell you the right length.
> 
> If D has some other convenient and portable way to embed data like icons
> and images into one's exe, then I'd be interested in hearing about it,
> but for right now it seems to me like working with static data is a pain
> in D.
> 
> Anyway, this one thing has actually been the biggest annoyance I've run
> across in trying to port C++ code to D.  Most things become easier, but
> this one thing is harder in D.
> 
I thought this would work but apparently it does not (what is the type of an
array literal?)

//begin code
static foo=[cast(ubyte)1,2,3,4,5];

void main()
{
        printf("%d\n",foo.sizeof);
}
//end code

I get this error

johan at Dragon:~$ dmd test.d
test.d(4): Error: cannot infer type from initializer

which feels strange as i thought array literals defaulted to fixed size
arrays.