What's the deal with "Warning: explicit element-wise assignment..."

Benjamin Thaut via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Apr 15 06:00:50 PDT 2014


Am 15.04.2014 13:23, schrieb monarch_dodra:
> On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 06:31:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We've just enabled warnings as errors in our build system at work and
>> suddenly:
>>
>> Warning: explicit element-wise assignment <exprnew> is better than <expr>
>>
>> where <exprnew> and <expr> are expressions picked from the code. For
>> example, this wasn't accepted:
>>
>> writeAvail_[0 .. buf.length] = buf;
>>
>> but this was:
>>
>> writeAvail_[0 .. buf.length] = buf[];
>>
>> The type of the involved variables were as trivial as ubyte[] and in
>> ubyte[] respectively.
>>
>> What's the idea?
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Funny, I can reproduce up to 2.063.2, but not after that.

AFAIK I was the reason it was removed again. See my other post.


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