The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online
Justin Johansson
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Fri Oct 30 06:16:20 PDT 2009
Max Samukha Wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:30:35 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
> >It's me as well. The decision didn't go without a fight (I had your
> >viewpoint and Walter didn't). He convinced me with two arguments. One is
> >that 90% of the time you actually want T[], not T[n].
>
> The argument may be flawed because, out of those 90% of arrays, only
> small part may be initialized from array literals. Many (most?) are
> created with new or appended. I suspect dynamic arrays created from
> literals are as rare as static arrays in real world code. Probably,
> I'll investigate how exactly rare.
Is this the same argument as Andrei's rhetorical question
(in relation to proposed removal of D complex literals),
"Name me five significant complex numbers" from a few weeks ago?
(Sorry can't find the NG link just right now).
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