array literal element types

Chad J chadjoan at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 18:03:04 PST 2009


Robert Jacques 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;
> 

Wait... just to be clear, is this because [1.0f, 2.5, 5.6, 0.8] would,
under the proposed, become a double[4] and thus not be duppable to float[]?



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