[Issue 14077] Letting compiler determine length for fixed-length arrays in return type

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14077

--- Comment #3 from monkeyworks12 at hotmail.com ---
(In reply to bearophile_hugs from comment #2)
> (In reply to monkeyworks12 from comment #1)
> > (In reply to Kenji Hara from comment #0)
> > > Possible case:
> > > 
> > > int[$] returnSArr()
> > > {
> > >     return [1, 2];
> > > }
> > 
> > Also consider the following:
> > 
> > auto[$] returnSArr()
> > {
> >     return [1, 2];
> > }
> > 
> > const[$] returnSArr()
> > {
> >     return [1, 2];
> > }
> > 
> > //Etc.
> > 
> > 
> > int[auto] returnAA()
> > {
> >     return ["asdf":1];
> > }
> > 
> > auto[auto] returnAA()
> > {
> >     return ["asdf":1];
> > }
> > 
> > immutable[auto[$]] returnAA()
> > {
> >     return [[1, 2]:1];
> > }
> 
> What are the use cases for all this? Implementation efforts have a cost in
> time.

I just put them here for completeness in case any were overlooked. I'm not
specifically requesting that they are implemented as well.

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