DMD 1.017 release

[Georg Wrede]

Walter Bright wrote:
> I'm going to have to retreat from this. Andrei made an argument that if 
> one had:
> 
>     struct S
>     {
>         static int foo;
>     }
> 
>     S s = ...;
>     assert(s.foo == S.foo);
> 
> then, analogously:
> 
>     T t = ...;
>     assert(t.init == T.init);
> 
> should hold as well. Consistency is a strong argument.

Well, whatever you do, it'd be convenient to test for "equal to the init 
value".

In other words, please let us compare _both_ to the "type init value" or 
(in other circumstances) to the "specific type init value", depending on 
our needs at the time.