[Issue 1202] New: Dollar inside array literal inside index brackets is valid.

[Daniel Keep]

d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1202
> 
>            Summary: Dollar inside array literal inside index brackets is
>                     valid.
>            Product: D
>            Version: 1.014
>           Platform: PC
>         OS/Version: Linux
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: trivial
>           Priority: P4
>          Component: DMD
>         AssignedTo: bugzilla at digitalmars.com
>         ReportedBy: aziz.kerim at gmail.com
> 
> 
> // writefln([1,2,$]); // '$' is valid only inside [] of index or slice
> writefln([1,2,3][0 .. [$][0]]); // [1,2,3]
> writefln([1,2,3][0 .. [0,$][1]]); // [1,2,3]
> writefln([1,2,3][0 .. [0,1,$][$-1]]); // [1,2,3]
> writefln([1,2,3][0 .. [0,1,$][$-$]]); // []
> writefln([1,2,3][0 .. [$][$-$]]); // [1,2,3]
> writefln([1,2,3][0 .. $*[$][0]/$]); // [1,2,3]
> writefln([1,2,3][0 .. [$,[$][0]][0..$][0]]); // [1,2,3]

ZOMG!  That's awesome!  I vote we keep this if only to confuse the hell
out of people with it! :)

	-- Daniel

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