Re: [9fans] ot: pascal rides again?

[Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com>]

On May 24, 2015 2:00:05 PM CDT, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
>
>
>On May 24, 2015, at 8:55 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
>wrote:
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>>> Uhm I might be mistaken, but I guess [8192]byte is an array, and
>[]byte are
>>> slices - therefore they are different types.
>> 
>> yes, exactly.  i suppose this implies that different size arrays are
>not type compatable
>> (yea pascal).  also the fu := bar[:] looks a lot like the tedious
>casting from c, and implies
>> dynamic allocation of the slice, i'm guessing.
>> 
>> - erik
>> 
>Later pascal standards supported conformant array parameters. And
>several extended pascal compilers provided dynamic arrays.
>
>In Go multidimensional arrays are not well supported. Try this:
>
>var x [5][6]int
>y := x[:2][:3]
>fmt.Printf("%v\n", y)
>
>It is what it is. Get used to it if you want/have to use Go! Apart from
>its concurrency features it is a pretty boring language but it is
>surprisingly easy to write code in it.

Seriously. I like Nim better. And K...


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