Init const fixed-sixed array in ctor

[Jonathan M Davis]

On 2011-06-17 18:18, bearophile wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis:
> 
> Sure, it's a special case where setting that one element sets
> 
> > the whole array, but making that work would be special casing for such an
> > array and complicate the compiler for little benefit.
> 
> Don't worry, I have defined the array of length one just because I like to
> minimize my examples :-)
> 
> > Now, if
> > array = [c];
> > doesn't work, _then_ we have a problem.
> 
> This doesn't compile, nor several variants of it:
> 
> 
> struct Foo {
>     const char[1] array;
>     this(char c) {
>         array = [c];
>     }
> }
> void main() {}

Then that's a problem, since that makes initializing the array dynamically 
impossible. Definitely worthy of a bug report.

- Jonathan M Davis