Hi,

I'm new to the language and would appreciate if anybody could clarify the following:

1. What is the rationale behind "prefix declaration" of an array? Using right-to-left order to declare an array and left-to-right order to access elements seems confusing.

2. Consider this code:
    dchar[3][5] arr = '.';
    arr[2][] = '!';
    writeln();
    writeln(arr);

Result: ["...", "...", "!!!", "...", "..."]
Which is expected. According to Ali Çehreli's tutorial, omitting the index of an array will result in operation being applied to the whole array (in this case element of another array).

change the code:
-   arr[2][] = '!';
+   arr[][2] = '!';

Still getting the same result: ["...", "...", "!!!", "...", "..."]

I would expect to get: ["..!", "..!", "..!", "..!", "..!"]
since omitted index would apply the operation to all elements of the first dimension of the array.

What am I missing?


Thanks,
Oleksiy

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