Biggest problems w/ D - strings

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 
> Well, I gave it a go, but cashew, seems to depend on mango.  And "dsss 
> net install mango" is failing, so I guess I give up for now.
> 
> Here's the error:
> 
> mango\net\util\cache\model\ICache.d(15): module IMessage cannot read 
> file 'mango\net\cluster\model\IMessage.d'
> 
> ICache.d has this:
> private import mango.net.cluster.model.IMessage;
> 
> but there is no mango/net/cluster directory in the sources that dsss net 
> is grabbing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --bb

Oh... my.  (*dejected sigh*)  No frets.  The bits that are causing that problem are 
horridly out of date and mostly mildly incomplete.  Much of Cashew will be getting 
re-written and/or updated soon.  I'll let you know when the Mango dependencies have been 
cleaned out.

A question: when requesting, for example, Tango from 'dsss net' does it grab the latest 
official release, or the current SVN snapshot?  If the latter, I may just go ahead and try 
DSSS out and make Cashew ready myself.

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls