why static array can be reassigned with new allocation?

[rassoc]

On 10/15/22 18:20, mw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> If you view the above two statements as in Python (numpy), it's very clear their meaning are different:
> ``` Python
> arr = other;  // assign array variable to `other`
> 
> arr[:] = other[:];  // assign array contents
> ```
These python arrays aren't static though.

Also, good old python will give you a view/slice of the whole array in the later case, not element-wise assignment. Numpy works differently and will fail if your shapes aren't the same:

  >>> a = np.array([1,2,3])
  >>> b = np.array([1,2,3,4,5])
  >>> a[:] = b[:]
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  ValueError: could not broadcast input array from shape (5,) into shape (3,)

Not all that different from your initial static array example.