"The total size of a static array cannot exceed 16Mb."

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Janice Caron" <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.353.1191333299.16939.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On 10/2/07, Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> P.S. I believe your function can be reduced to this without any 
>> significant changes in behavior:
>>
>>      T[][] ret = new T[][x];
>>      foreach(ref row;ret)
>>          row.length = y;
>>
>>      return ret;
>
> For that matter, I think you could also do:
>
>    template MultiDimArray(T,int N)
>    {
>        static if (N == 1)
>            typedef T[] MultiDimArray;
>        else
>            typedef MultiDimArray!(T,N-1)[] MultiDimArray;
>    }
>
>    MultiDimArray!(T,N) MakeMultiDimArray(T,int N)(int dim, int[] 
> others...)
>    {
>        static if (N == 1)
>            return new T[dim];
>        else
>        {
>            MultiDimArray!(T,N) t;
>            t.length = dim;
>            foreach(ref a;t) a =
> MakeMultiDimArray!(T,N-1)(others[0],others[1..$]);
>            return t;
>        }
>    }

You've basically implemented, in templates, what you can already do with the 
language syntax.  MultiDimArray!(int, 3) will turn into int[][][], and the 
functionality of MakeMultiDimArray is already covered by array new-ing, i.e. 
new int[][][](10, 20, 30).

And it's still an array-of-arrays.