[Gambas-user] About array Initialization

[Benoît Minisini]

> Good morning to all!
> 
> we can do an array initialization such as
> 
>   DIM aNumbers AS Integer[] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
> 
> but not
>   DIM aNumbers AS Integer[10] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
> 
> 
> why is that?

No real reason, except that the second syntax is useless: you are creating a 
array of ten integers that you are replacing with another array of ten 
integers. The first array is freed.

Dim xxx As yyy[] = [ ... ] is not just an array initialization like in C. It 
actually runs the [ ... ] operator to create an array at runtime.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini