Biggest problems w/ D - strings

[Bill Baxter]

Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
>>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>>> "Deewiant" <deewiant.doesnotlike.spam at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>>>> news:f9rjbi$1sav$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>>> Ever since Issue 1268 was fixed in 1.017, you can just write:
>>>>>
>>>>> char[32] abc = 0;
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I always wished that that were possible, but never knew if it was 
>>>> legal :D
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh it is, but there's no equivelant one-liner for dynamic arrays.  
>>> Instead you have to:
>>>
>>> auto var = new int[len];
>>> var[] = 42;
>>>
>>> Or using Cashew:
>>>
>>> import cashew.utils.Array;
>>> // ...
>>> auto var = repeat(42, len);
>>>
>>> Which is actually just a wrapper around the above example.  It'd be 
>>> nice if there were some way to specify an initializor for a dynamic 
>>> array's elements in place, that didn't rely on using a typedef.
>>>
>>> typedef int _MyInt42 = 42;
>>> auto var = cast(int[]) new _MyInt42[len];
>>>
>>> o_O
>>
>> You gonna make that cashew available via dsss net any time soon?  If 
>> not you mind if I do it?
>>
>> --bb
> 
> Well...  I admit I don't actually use DSSS myself.  (The shame, I 
> know.)  So if you want to do so, go ahead.  I have a long list of to-do 
> items for Cashew... should really get to work on it.  (Like adding those 
> nifty binutils.)
> 
> -- Chris Nicholson-Sauls


Well, I gave it a go, but cashew, seems to depend on mango.  And "dsss 
net install mango" is failing, so I guess I give up for now.

Here's the error:

mango\net\util\cache\model\ICache.d(15): module IMessage cannot read 
file 'mango\net\cluster\model\IMessage.d'

ICache.d has this:
private import mango.net.cluster.model.IMessage;

but there is no mango/net/cluster directory in the sources that dsss net 
is grabbing.




--bb