• Kyle Furlong <kylefurlong gmail.com> Jan 21 2007
• Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> Jan 21 2007
• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Jan 26 2007
• Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> Jan 27 2007

Kyle Furlong <kylefurlong gmail.com> writes:

How did it go? :-)

Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

Kyle Furlong wrote:
 How did it go? :-)


I've been told it went over well. The video is supposed to go up on 
google video at some point.

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Walter Bright wrote:
 Kyle Furlong wrote:
 How did it go? :-)


 I've been told it went over well. The video is supposed to go up on 
 google video at some point.


Slides from the talk are up now.

http://www.nwcpp.org/Meetings/2007/01.html

--bb

Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> writes:

Bill Baxter wrote:
 Walter Bright wrote:
 Kyle Furlong wrote:
 How did it go? :-)


 I've been told it went over well. The video is supposed to go up on 
 google video at some point.


 Slides from the talk are up now.
 
 http://www.nwcpp.org/Meetings/2007/01.html


 From the section on expression tuples:
"""
It can be used to create an array literal:

alias Tuple!(3, 7, 6) AT;

...
int[] a = [AT];		// same as [3,7,6]
"""

I was surprised to read this, as I tried that very thing just yesterday 
and it didn't work. I have now investigated further. My findings:
-----
import std.stdio;

alias Tuple!(1,2,3) AT;

void main() {
     int[] foo_dyn_local = [AT];     // works
     int[3] foo_static_local = [AT]; // works

     writefln(foo_dyn_local);
     writefln(foo_static_local);
//    writefln(foo_dyn_global);
//    writefln(foo_static_global);


}

// Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (tuple1,2,3)
// of type (int, int, int) to int
//int[] foo_dyn_global = [AT];

// Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (tuple1,2,3)
// of type (int, int, int) to int
//int[3] foo_static_global = [AT];
-----

Why does this only work at function scope?