Inferring static array size

Nick Treleaven nick at geany.org
Fri May 3 10:04:57 UTC 2024


On Friday, 3 May 2024 at 09:15:02 UTC, rkompass wrote:
> I read through the discusion there and found it quite 
> digressing and not productive.
> There was no real weighing the pros against the cons.
>
> Of course we have staticArray, but in programming it's much 
> about conciseness which at the same time allows for effortlessy 
> (intuitively) transporting the meaning of a construct.
> And this criterion here is fulfilled.
> No new symbol is introduced, just a meaning extended, which is 
> immediatly clear.
>
> Could DIP 1039 be restarted?

I think the sticking point is making an implementation that does 
not complicate the compiler code much.


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