Discussion Thread: DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Community Review Round 1

[Atila Neves]

On Monday, 11 January 2021 at 12:32:42 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On Friday, 8 January 2021 at 14:07:29 UTC, Luhrel wrote:
>>> Example a3 is straightforward the primary use case for 
>>> staticArray:
>>>     auto a3 = [1,2,3].staticArray;
>>
>> I really don't like the `.staticArray` because it's 
>> non-esthetic. I don't know if it's really argument, mainly 
>> because it's very personal.
>
> The worst thing about it is you have to import std.array, so 
> probably people won't bother scrolling to the top to add the 
> import and losing/bookmarking their place,

Why do they have to scroll to the top? Even if they did, what 
editor are they using that they can't jump back to where they 
were?