[Issue 481] Letting compiler determine length for fixed-length arrays

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481

--- Comment #36 from Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Ketmar Dark from comment #35)
> sorry, i messed dates. :-)
> 
> the `[$]` patch was first merged, and then reverted. this feature will not
> be in D2, ever: it was decided that one can do almost the same thing with
> some template magic. it was decided by W&A, so there's no reason to argue if
> this feature should be included, Masters says their word on it.

Sorry, but I don't think "masters' word" is a technically valid reason for
rejecting the request outright. No matter how much work someone put into the
language and its compiler, just saying no without saying why or what else can
be done is not acceptable. It simply rubs community people the wrong way. If
this particular patch's approach to the problem wasn't acceptable, that's a
different thing, but the idea itself is most sane and I don't see any reasons
provided as to why it should be rejected.

Further, I don't get how Walter/Andrei are supposed to have nixed this. Below
in comment #1, Andrei only has something positive to say about this, and
neither he nor Walter have said anything negative...

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