• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Dec 16 2011
• "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> Dec 16 2011
• Timon Gehr <timon.gehr gmx.ch> Dec 17 2011

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

A small quiz. This Python2 code:

m1 = [["A'", "B'"]]
print m1
m2 = m1 + [[]]
print m2


Prints:

[["A'", "B'"]]
[["A'", "B'"], []]


What does this D2 program print?

import std.stdio;
void main() {
    string[][] m1 = [["A'", "B'"]];
    writeln(m1);
    string[][] m2 = m1 ~ [[]];
    writeln(m2);
}

Bye,
bearophile

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

Don't forget that string is an alias for immutable(char)[].

The immutable isn't important here, but the fact that
strings are arrays is.

char[][][] is the real type here.

Timon Gehr <timon.gehr gmx.ch> writes:

On 12/17/2011 02:43 AM, bearophile wrote:
 A small quiz. This Python2 code:

 m1 = [["A'", "B'"]]
 print m1
 m2 = m1 + [[]]
 print m2


 Prints:

 [["A'", "B'"]]
 [["A'", "B'"], []]


 What does this D2 program print?

 import std.stdio;
 void main() {
      string[][] m1 = [["A'", "B'"]];
      writeln(m1);
      string[][] m2 = m1 ~ [[]];
      writeln(m2);
 }

 Bye,
 bearophile


I do not think that this is very sensible (array-array appends are more 
natural than array-element appends, so disambiguation should go the 
other way). Is it documented anywhere or is it just an implementation 
artefact?