• Mildred (26/26) Sep 05 2006 Hi,
• Johan Granberg (12/41) Sep 05 2006 I think this is what I have used.
• Mildred (8/20) Sep 06 2006 Thanks, that helps me.
• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jari-Matti_M=E4kel=E4?= (24/42) Sep 06 2006 An empty hash is already "null" by default. Basically you're doing
• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jari-Matti_M=E4kel=E4?= (5/7) Sep 06 2006
• =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jari-Matti_M=E4kel=E4?= (2/26) Sep 06 2006

Mildred <mildred593 online.fr> writes:

Hi,

I'm a new user od D language but immediately, I felt that was the
language I always looking for. So I'm very happy to use it.
I'm trying to convert my recent project to C (using a garbage collector
as library) to D. It's a script language with a lisp syntax.

My question is how do I use new to allocate a hash table. My code is as
follows :

class Value {
	...
	protected Value[char[]] _environment = null;
	...
	public void env_make(Stack S){
		_environment = new Value[char[]];
	}
	...
}

But the compiler says : need size of rightmost array, not type char[]

My problem is that I want some Value objects to have an environment,
and I want others objects without environment (so I use null).
How can I do that ?

Thanks
Mildred

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Johan Granberg <lijat.meREM OVEgmail.com> writes:

Mildred wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I'm a new user od D language but immediately, I felt that was the
 language I always looking for. So I'm very happy to use it.
 I'm trying to convert my recent project to C (using a garbage collector
 as library) to D. It's a script language with a lisp syntax.
 
 My question is how do I use new to allocate a hash table. My code is as
 follows :
 
 class Value {
 	...
 	protected Value[char[]] _environment = null;
 	...
 	public void env_make(Stack S){
 		_environment = new Value[char[]];
 	}
 	...
 }
 
 But the compiler says : need size of rightmost array, not type char[]
 
 My problem is that I want some Value objects to have an environment,
 and I want others objects without environment (so I use null).
 How can I do that ?
 
 Thanks
 Mildred
 

I think this is what I have used.

class Value {
	...
	protected Value[char[]] _environment = null;
	...
	public void env_make(Stack S){
		Value[char[]] e;
		_environment = e;
	}
	...
}

Mildred <mildred593 online.fr> writes:

Le mar 05/09/2006 __ 20:01 Johan Granberg __ __crit:
 I think this is what I have used.
 
 class Value {
 	...
 	protected Value[char[]] _environment = null;
 	...
 	public void env_make(Stack S){
 		Value[char[]] e;
 		_environment = e;
 	}
 	...
 }

Thanks, that helps me.

Isn't there a solution with the new keyword, it is the normal way to
allocate on the heap, no ?

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jari-Matti_M=E4kel=E4?= <jmjmak utu.fi.invalid> writes:

Mildred wrote:
 Le mar 05/09/2006 __ 20:01 Johan Granberg __ __crit:
 I think this is what I have used.

 class Value {
 	...
 	protected Value[char[]] _environment = null;
 	...
 	public void env_make(Stack S){
 		Value[char[]] e;
 		_environment = e;
 	}
 	...
 }

 
 Thanks, that helps me.
 
 Isn't there a solution with the new keyword, it is the normal way to
 allocate on the heap, no ?

An empty hash is already "null" by default. Basically you're doing
something stupid here - see this example:

template Hash(K,V) {
        V[K] Hash() {
                V[K] tmp;
                return tmp;
        }
}

void main() {
        int[int] a;
        assert(a is null);
        a[1] = 1;
        assert(a !is null);
        a = Hash!(int, int);
        assert(a is null);
        a[1] = 1;
        assert(a !is null);
        a = Hash!(int, int);
        assert(a is null);
}

The compiler indicates a hash is empty by returning a null. Here Hash!
creates an empty hash and returns it - hash array literals can be
implemented in the same fashion.

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jari-Matti_M=E4kel=E4?= <jmjmak utu.fi.invalid> writes:

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
 An empty hash is already "null" by default. Basically you're doing
 something stupid here

<snip>

Sorry, I was a bit rude. I always rely on the implicit initialization a
bit too much. I hope the Hash-template will give the functionality you
were looking for.

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jari-Matti_M=E4kel=E4?= <jmjmak utu.fi.invalid> writes:

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
 main() {
         int[int] a;
         assert(a is null);
         a[1] = 1;
         assert(a !is null);
         a = Hash!(int, int);
         assert(a is null);
         a[1] = 1;
         assert(a !is null);
         a = Hash!(int, int);
         assert(a is null);
 }

Dammit, here's an optimized version (stupid me):

 void main() {
         int[int] a;
         assert(a is null);
         a[1] = 1;
         assert(a !is null);
         a = null;	// "creates" a new hash
         assert(a is null);
         a[1] = 1;
         assert(a !is null);
         a = null;	// "creates" yet another new hash
         assert(a is null);
 }