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Dee Girl Wrote:

> Maybe check insertion could be arranged by the compiler. Java does that. But it is generally better to detect type errors earlier. D has const so not much expressive is lost. Dee Girl

Typecheck can't be arranged out of nothing. Java and CLR can do a typecheck because array is an object there, a complex object, arrays in D are just slices - pairs of pointer and length. There is no way to do a typecheck, because there is no type to check against.