What can you "new"

[Georg Wrede]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Don wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> new is a really bad construct. I'm very unhappy that D inherited it.
>>
>> Care to elaborate?
> 
> I just did in the PS :o). New is not uniform: you can't use it easily to 
> allocate a pointer to a dynamic array, or even a fixed-size array. Why? 
> Because new is syntactically ill-conceived. It also allocates two 
> keywords for no good reason.
> 
> new should disappear and delete should be an unsafe function.

Have I missed a discussion on what to have instead of new?