[Issue 15359] DMD incorrectly identifies type of multidimensional array

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15359

Alex Parrill <initrd.gz at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Alex Parrill <initrd.gz at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jack Stouffer from comment #2)
> (In reply to Tanel Tagaväli from comment #1)
> > I believe you mean "int[2][5] data = ...".
> 
> Yes I did. I improperly reduced a bug I ran into.
> 
> Here is a better illustration of the problem
> 
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> void main() {
>     int[][] data = [[0, 1], [2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7], [8, 9]];
>     int[2][5] d = data;
> }
> ------
> 
> Maybe it's just a question of a bad error message, because if taking the
> data from a dynamic array and saving it into a static array is not allowed
> it should say something like
> 
> ------
> Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (data) of type int[][] to
> int[2][5]
> ------
> 
> But instead it says
> 
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> Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (data) of type int[][] to int[]
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Fixed-sized arrays (like `int[2][5]`) have different semantics than slices
(like `int[][]`); you'll have to assign the elements manually.

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