Biggest problems w/ D - strings

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>> "Deewiant" <deewiant.doesnotlike.spam at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:f9rjbi$1sav$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> Ever since Issue 1268 was fixed in 1.017, you can just write:
>>>>
>>>> char[32] abc = 0;
>>>>
>>>
>>> I always wished that that were possible, but never knew if it was 
>>> legal :D
>>>
>>
>> Oh it is, but there's no equivelant one-liner for dynamic arrays.  
>> Instead you have to:
>>
>> auto var = new int[len];
>> var[] = 42;
>>
>> Or using Cashew:
>>
>> import cashew.utils.Array;
>> // ...
>> auto var = repeat(42, len);
>>
>> Which is actually just a wrapper around the above example.  It'd be 
>> nice if there were some way to specify an initializor for a dynamic 
>> array's elements in place, that didn't rely on using a typedef.
>>
>> typedef int _MyInt42 = 42;
>> auto var = cast(int[]) new _MyInt42[len];
>>
>> o_O
> 
> You gonna make that cashew available via dsss net any time soon?  If not 
> you mind if I do it?
> 
> --bb

Well...  I admit I don't actually use DSSS myself.  (The shame, I know.)  So if you want 
to do so, go ahead.  I have a long list of to-do items for Cashew... should really get to 
work on it.  (Like adding those nifty binutils.)

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls