DMD 0.177 release [Length in slice expressions]

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Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:24:28 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For
>> Email) wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> A small book could be written on just how bad language design is 
>>> using "length" and "$" to capture slice size inside a slice 
>>> expression. I managed to write two lengthy emails to Walter about 
>>> them, and just barely got started. 
>>
>> Please share your thoughts here if you can too.
> 
> Gladly; I dug my email and let me share a couple of excerpts.
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Wow, I understand it now. I only hope that at least 'length' will be 
deprecated before 1.0.

I like your dollars. I'm not so good with grammars, will your proposal 
also work for user defined types?