Issues with constants, and inout (was Real World usage of D, Today)

[Bill Baxter]

Frits van Bommel wrote:

> So it defaults to the *smallest* character type that can hold it in one 
> element.
> Pretty cool, actually.
> 
> This also applies to other types, by the way. If you type an integer 
> literal that won't fit into an 'int', it'll be a 'long' constant 
> (assuming it fits), not an 'int' constant.
> 
> Perhaps we should do something similar with string literals, defaulting 
> it to use an array of the smallest character type that can hold all of 
> the characters in the string (i.e. the maximum "character type" of the 
> component characters) ?

And while you're at it do the same for integer and float literals -- use 
the "best" type considering _all_ the elements rather than just the 
first one so that this doesn't mean an array with two 1 integers.

    [1, 1.5];

--bb