• d-bugmail puremagic.com Dec 26 2009
• d-bugmail puremagic.com Dec 26 2009
• d-bugmail puremagic.com Dec 26 2009

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3652

           Summary: Allow implicit casting of dynamic array slices of
                    known size to static array
           Product: D
           Version: 2.036
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: baryluk smp.if.uj.edu.pl


--- Comment #0 from Witold Baryluk <baryluk smp.if.uj.edu.pl> 2009-12-26
14:17:17 PST ---
Consider this:

void foo(float[4] x) {
   return x[0]+x[1]*x[2]-x[3];
}


void main() {
    float[] xs = read_floats_from_file();

    foreach (i; 0 .. xs.length-4) {
         foo(xs[ i .. i+4]);
    }
}

or simpler thing to calculate in compile time:

void main() {
    float[] xs = read_floats_from_file();
    foo(xs[ 0 .. 4]);
}

In both cases compiler will say:
   cannot implicitly convert expression (_adDupT((&
_D11TypeInfo_Af6__initZ),qs[0u..4u])) of type float[] to float[4u]
or something similar. It is hard to see why this is really needed. 

How about allowing (and performing) implicit cast to static array if compiler
knows (or can easly infere) size of the slice and it aggree with target type?
Of course there will be situations where we have no knowledge about it:


void main() {
    float[] xs = read_floats_from_file();
    uint a = rand() % xs.length;
    foo(xs[ 0 .. a ]);
}

But allowing implicit cast also can detect other errors:
    foreach (i; 0 .. xs.length-4) {
         foo(xs[ i .. i+3]);
    }

Compiler in such situation will complain not because we are using float[] to
float[4] conversion, but because we are trying to call float[4] function using
float[3] slice.

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--- Comment #1 from Witold Baryluk <baryluk smp.if.uj.edu.pl> 2009-12-26
14:18:34 PST ---
So essentially problem is that slices are just dynamic arrays. So bringing back
the topic of making slices different/distinctive types.

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--- Comment #2 from Witold Baryluk <baryluk smp.if.uj.edu.pl> 2009-12-26
14:21:40 PST ---
It is even worse that i was innitially thinking:

explicit casting doesn't work:
series2.d(113): Error: e2ir: cannot cast qs[0u..1u] of type float[] to type
float[1u]

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