array literal element types

[grauzone]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM, 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.
>>
> 
> Yay!
> But if you want to force a type will there be a way to do that too
> without casting each item?
> like
>    cast(int[]) [2.0, 4.5, 6.7]
> 
> Maybe that works already?

It does. Note that if you cast an array variable (and not an array 
literal), it doesn't do what you expect. Instead, it reinterpret casts 
the array bytes. What a strange semantic difference, bug or feature?

> --bb