[Issue 1869] Semantically returning an array from a funciton is difficult

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1869





------- Comment #2 from jason at spashett.com  2008-02-25 17:03 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> The reason that static arrays can't be returned is that they are pointers to
> local variables. That is in reference to this code:
> >int[10] a;
> >return a;
> 
> however IIRC you can have a function return type int[4]:
> >int[4] fn(int i, int[4][4] j) { return j[i]; }
> 
> I guess I'm not realy understanding what your concern is.
> 

Is this new in D 2.x ?

I get main.d(813): Error: functions cannot return static array int[4u]
with your example.

My example is for a two dimensional array, which up until fairly recently was
hard to initialise from a static array (until recently dmd 2.0 changelog)

Is it the case therefore that dmd 2.x supports returning of static arrays?


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