• Id (1/1) Aug 28 2004 D is still carrying this bug for too long, IMHO. When will this be addre...
• Id (10/10) Aug 28 2004 (oops, I had hit the post message by mistake ¬¬')
• Walter (6/15) Aug 28 2004 addressed?
• Stewart Gordon (15/25) Sep 01 2004 Whereabouts is this arbitrary restriction specified, exactly? And what

Id <Id_member pathlink.com> writes:

D is still carrying this bug for too long, IMHO. When will this be addressed?

Id <Id_member pathlink.com> writes:

(oops, I had hit the post message by mistake ¬¬')

I'm talking about the:
[code]
public static void main()
{
int[] foo=[-1,0,1];
}
[/code]
mod1.d(3) variable foo is not a static and cannot have static initializer

D is still carrying this bug for too long, IMHO. When will this be addressed?

"Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

"Id" <Id_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
news:cgq6q4$2urq$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I'm talking about the:
 [code]
 public static void main()
 {
 int[] foo=[-1,0,1];
 }
 [/code]
 mod1.d(3) variable foo is not a static and cannot have static initializer

 D is still carrying this bug for too long, IMHO. When will this be

addressed?

It's not a bug, since it is the way the language is specified. But
supporting array (and struct) literals are very good candidates for 2.0
features.

Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

Walter wrote:

 "Id" <Id_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
 news:cgq6q4$2urq$1 digitaldaemon.com...

<snip>
 mod1.d(3) variable foo is not a static and cannot have static initializer

 D is still carrying this bug for too long, IMHO. When will this be 
 addressed?

 
 It's not a bug, since it is the way the language is specified.

Whereabouts is this arbitrary restriction specified, exactly?  And what 
is its advantage?

And does this mean it's a misbug that the form's allowed for non-static 
class members?

 But supporting array (and struct) literals are very good candidates for 2.0
 features.

This isn't exactly an array literal, just the standard array 
initialisation syntax wanting to work wherever it ought to, and where it 
works perfectly in plain old C.

http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?D/26695
et seq....

Stewart.

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