What's left for 1.0?

[Chris Miller]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:45:59 -0500, Bill Baxter  
<dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote:

> Bill Baxter wrote:

> * No way to initialize a static array without counting elements
>      static byte[???] imageData = [...];   // i hope you like counting!

Perhaps specifying 0 should be the convenient syntax:
    static byte[0] imageData = [...];  // real length replaced

>
> * No way to initialize a dynamic array with a known length
>      byte[] imageData;  imageData.length = 5;  // two steps - meh

    auto imageData = new byte[5];

>
> * No way to initialize array of strings
>      char[][] list = ["eggs","bacon","milk","break"];  //uh uh

This is a weird one but here is a workaround:
    char[][] list = ["eggs"[],"bacon","milk","break"];
but since static and const array initializers can get by without this  
workaround, so should initializers for other arrays.

>
> * No way to initialize non-static struct
>      Point p = { x:1.0, y:2.0 };  // nope...not static

Agreed; workaround is to use a const dummy:
    const Point p_init = { x:1.0, y:2.0 };
    Point p = p_init;

>
> * No way to initialize associative array
>      char[int] strTable = {"hello":5, "hi":2, "greetings":9}; // no way

I'd be OK if this were a 2.0 thing.