Re: [Vala] array declaration

[Harry Van Haaren <harryhaaren gmail com>]

Hey,

Coming from a C++ background I first tried   typeHere  nameHere[];  too.
I noticed that newer languages seemed to have   type[]  name; configuration
(Java, C# etc).

I'm not part of the Vala team though, so I dont know the "official" status!
-Harry

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:15 PM, pancake <pancake youterm com> wrote:

>  I have noticed that if you declare an array in a wrong way you get errors
> from the C compiler
> instead of handling it at vala level.
>
> should this syntax be supported? or we should just throw an error?
>
> Here's the test case:
>
> $ cat a.vala
> #!/usr/bin/vala
> void main () {
>        // uint8[] foo = new uint8[16]; // OK
>        uint8 foo[] = new uint8[16]; // FAIL
>        print("%d\n", foo[0]);
> }
>
> $ vala a.vala
> /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c: In function '_vala_main':
> /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c:16:9: error: array size missing in '_tmp0_'
> /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c:19:9: error: array size missing in 'foo'
> /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c:20:16: error: incompatible types when assigning to
> type 'guint8[1]' from type 'guint8 *'
> /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c:20:6: error: incompatible types when assigning to type
> 'guint8[1]' from type 'guint8 *'
> /tmp/a.vala.LDAGFV.c:22:6: error: incompatible types when assigning to type
> 'guint8[1]' from type 'void *'
> error: cc exited with status 256
>
>
> Thanks
>
> --pancake
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