Resizable Arrays?

[Tim M]

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:30:28 +1300, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>  
wrote:

> Jason House wrote:
>> Are there any good reasons to allow built in arrays to be resizable?
>>  There's already plenty of empirical evidence that building arrays by  
>> appending is incredibly slow.
>>  There are also bugs in bugzilla where resizing arrays after assigning  
>> one array to another violates type safety. Those bugs can be solved by  
>> always reallocatimg arrays when resizing, but that makes performance  
>> even worse...
>>  While not much of an argument, C# also prevents array resizing.
>>  Is it time to rely on standard libraries for data structures and let  
>> built in arrays be fixed length? It's a breaking change...
>
> C has dynamic arrays now.  If D got rid of them I might just cry.


How do you mean? Are you talking about something like this:

void someFunc(int s)
{
    int ar[s];
}