DMD 0.177 release [Length in slice expressions]

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website for Email)]

Lutger wrote:
> Wow, I understand it now. I only hope that at least 'length' will be 
> deprecated before 1.0.
> 
> I like your dollars.

Well, just don't take'em away from my bank account :o).

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

The plan is that $expression is rewritten into (expression).length. The
consistent thing to do is to make that into an onXyz() function, but I
don't find this name inconsistency jarring.


Andrei