• Dan <murpsoft hotmail.com> Mar 16 2007
• Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> Mar 16 2007
• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Mar 16 2007

Dan <murpsoft hotmail.com> writes:

Bill Baxter Wrote:

 is *already* unreadable (plus I don't think that [3,17] part is legal 
 D).  If any reasonable programmer really did have a need for such a type 


Actually, Bill, it's part of the language spec.
http://digitalmars.com/d/arrays.html
Look up "Rectangular Arrays"

Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> writes:

Dan wrote:
 Bill Baxter Wrote:
 
 is *already* unreadable (plus I don't think that [3,17] part is legal 
 D).  If any reasonable programmer really did have a need for such a type 


 Actually, Bill, it's part of the language spec.
 http://digitalmars.com/d/arrays.html
 Look up "Rectangular Arrays"


The only thing even close to that is this:
---
In other languages, this would be called a multidimensional array and be 
declared as:

double matrix[3,3];
---
Note those first three words...

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Dan wrote:
 Bill Baxter Wrote:
 
 is *already* unreadable (plus I don't think that [3,17] part is legal 
 D).  If any reasonable programmer really did have a need for such a type 


 Actually, Bill, it's part of the language spec.
 http://digitalmars.com/d/arrays.html
 Look up "Rectangular Arrays"


Read that part of the spec closely, Dan.

--bb