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On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 12:44:47 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Monday, November 21, 2016 12:08:30 Patric Dexheimer via 
> Digitalmars-d- learn wrote:
> No. D doesn't have that, though it's easy enough to do the same 
> thing with a helper template. However, Ketmar seems to like to 
> use his own fork of dmd where he made changes to the language 
> based on his preferences. IIRC, it was proposed at one point 
> that $ be used in this manner to create a static array while 
> inferring its size (it might have even had a PR which was 
> rejected), and presumably, Ketmar added it to his own compiler, 
> because he liked the feature. But for better or worse, it's not 
> standard D, and if the PR was rejected like I think it was, 
> then it likely never will become standard D. Someone could 
> create a DIP for it though and argue for it. If they did that 
> convincingly enough, maybe it would become a feature. I suspect 
> that the response will be though that since it's easy enough to 
> just create a template to do the same thing, it's not worth 
> adding to the language.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#@nogc-Array-Literals:-Breaking-the-Limits