[Issue 6408] string[].init gives a wrong type

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6408



--- Comment #2 from bearophile_hugs at eml.cc 2011-07-30 09:13:40 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Apparently DMD shouldn't accept string[].init at all, e.g. int[].init is a
> parser error:

Isn't it better to modify DMD to accept both string[].init and int[].init, and
return the correct results in both cases?

Because the alternative idiom to create an empty array is to use cast(int[])[],
and it's better to avoid casts where possible.

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