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On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 12:44:47 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> 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

That's definitely what Walter would say. But I think it shouldn't 
be the only argument to not add a feature to the language itself: 
if some pattern is useful/frequent, and users implement it 
themselves every time, it should be either implemented in the 
compiler or in the standard library.

Besides that, it just seems inconsistent that D lacks this 
particular feature: fixed-sized arrays are there, type deduction 
is there, so where's type deduction for fixed-sized arrays? 
Though I would argue that it's better to use '_' instead of '$' 
to denote deduced fixed size, it seems more obvious to me:

int[_] array = [ 1, 2, 3 ];