• d-bugmail puremagic.com Oct 14 2009
• d-bugmail puremagic.com Oct 14 2009

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3395

           Summary: Ambiguous array operations
           Product: D
           Version: 2.032
          Platform: All
               URL: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/arrays.html
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: spec
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: dfj1esp02 sneakemail.com


--- Comment #0 from Sobirari Muhomori <dfj1esp02 sneakemail.com> 2009-10-14
01:15:48 PDT ---
These expressions are ambiguous:
---
a[].max(n);
a[1..4].max(n);
---
Does it mean calling the function on the slice or on each item in the slice?

Possible solution is to change the meaning of empty square brackets from full
slice to only a hint for array operation so that a[].max(n) is an array
operation and a[1..4].max(n) is max(a[1..4],n).
This also gives possibility to extend array operation to whole statement even
if it's not an lvalue:
---
printf("%.4f, ",a[]);
becomes
foreach(v;a)printf("%.4f, ",v);
---
a[].max(n) and max(a[],n) become the same and unambiguous with other use cases.

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--- Comment #1 from Sobirari Muhomori <dfj1esp02 sneakemail.com> 2009-10-14
01:31:43 PDT ---
This also has to do with type safety.
---
a[]=b[];
---
This expression is ambiguous. What was meant? Copy items from b[] slice to a[]
slice or assign b[] slice to each item in a[] slice?
Ambiguity resolution:
---
a[]=b[]; //copy items from b to a
a[]=b; //assign b slice to each item in a slice
a[]=b[0..$]; //ditto
---

And types for the operation must match or an error will be issued.
---
T[] a,b;
a[]=b;
---
Currently this is accepted, but should fail, the right side expression in this
assignment must be of type T (or T[] with array op).

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