I'm looking at the p1800 draft 4, section 3.7 on Array Literals. A few comments: 1) The section begins: Array literals are syntactically similar to C initializers, but with the replicate operator ( {{}} ) allowed. But then it gives literals with the '{} syntax, which is not similar to the C initializer syntax. This raises questions in the reader's mind, which are not resolved until section 8.13. That's a long time to keep someone in suspense. Why not say that array literals (and struct literals) resemble C initializers except that they include an apostrophe prefix. Also, doesn't a replicate operator within an array or struct literal also require the apostrophe prefix? So this should also be mentioned in the first sentence of this section. 2) If '{1, 2, 3} is considered a literal, then why isn't an ordinary bitvector concatenation considered a literal? In fact, given the complexity of array and struct assignment patterns, I don't think that section 3.7 is really the place for them. Is there some special reason for including array and struct literals in chapter 3? I also notice that the syntax for array and struct literals isn't even given in the syntax box at the top of chapter 3. PaulReceived on Tue Apr 19 15:03:19 2005
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