array literal element types

[Bill Baxter]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Robert Jacques <sandford at jhu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:42:45 -0500, Walter Bright
> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> Currently, the type is determined by the type of the first element and the
>> rest are implicitly cast to it.
>>
>> I propose changing it to being the type produced by applying the ?: logic
>> repeatedly to all the elements.
>
> Given how numeric literals currently work:
> vote--
>
> for example currently:
> float[] = [1.0f, 2.5, 5.6, 0.8].dup;
>
> under the proposal
> float[] = [1.0f, 2.5f, 5.6f, 0.8f].dup;

On the other hand, currently

float[] = [1.0f, 2.0f, 3.0f, 4.5f].dup;

under the proposal:
float[] = [1, 2, 3, 4.5f].dup;

(I think    (true)?1:4.5f  is a float, anyway).
--bb