One case of array assignments

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:59:33PM +0100, John Colvin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 March 2013 at 20:46:35 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
[...]
> >Then what's the meaning of
> >
> >int[3][3] x = [1,2,3];
> >
> >Is it
> >
> >int[3][3] x = [[1,2,3],[1,2,3],[1,2,3]];
> >
> >or
> >
> >int[3][3] x = [[1,1,1],[2,2,2],[3,3,3]];
> 
> the former, clearly. It directly follows from
> 
> int[3] a = 1;
> 
> Every element of the array is initialised to the value given. x is
> an array of arrays and hence each "element-array" is initialised to
> the array on the right hand side.

I don't like this. It adds a lot of parsing complexities just for some
syntactic sugar with no clear benefits beyond being easier to type. Why
not just use the existing array operations syntax?

	int[3] a;
	a[] = 1;	// makes intent clear

	int[3][3] b;
	b[] = [1, 2, 3]; // fits into current syntax already


T

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