Array literals

[KennyTM~]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2008-10-18 11:31:09 -0400, KennyTM~ <kennytm at gmail.com> said:
> 
>>>> // The only change from the code above is
>>>> // swapping the order of "Hello" and "what"
>>>> import std.stdio: writefln;
>>>> void main() {
>>>>     char[static][static] a = ["what", "Hello"];
>>>>     writefln(a[1].length); // 5
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>> For that to work, you'd also need implcit conversion from T[4] to 
>>> T[5]. How are your proposing to do that?
>>
>> Pad with T.init
> 
> Should I take it then that the following assertions should hold true?
> 
>     char[static][static] a = ["what", "Hello"];
>     assert(a[0] == "what\0");
>     assert(a[0] != "what");
> 
> That seems completly backward.
> 

Isn't it the current behavior?

         auto x = ["World", "x"];
         writeln(typeof(x[0]).stringof);
         writeln(typeof(x[1]).stringof);
         writeln(typeof(x).stringof);
         writeln(x[1] == "x");

prints:

invariant(char[5u])
invariant(char[5u])
invariant(char[5u])[2u]
false

So at least it is just "not fixing an old bug" (if this is), but not 
"completely backward".