Array operations -- not actually so difficult

[Bill Baxter]

Kirk McDonald wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
>> I put it on my D Rants page[1], but I don't think I ever filed it as a 
>> bug.
>>
>> [1] http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BillBaxter
>>
>> --bb
> 
> 
> On that page:
> 
> -----
> It should be possible to set the init property for a typedef'ed or other 
> user defined type. E.g.
> 
>    typedef int myint;
>    myint.init = -1;
> -----
> 
> You can do this:
> 
> import std.stdio;
> typedef int INT = 20;
> void main() {
>     INT i;
>     writefln(i); // prints 20
> }

That's interesting.  Didn't know that.  Seems not as intuitive as 
setting .init directly, but now that I think about it, I guess there are 
issues with allowing the init value to be set anywhere other that at the 
point of type definition.

--bb