Array literals' default type

[grauzone]

Don wrote:
> Not so, Andrei has said that he thinks auto-flattening was a bad idea. 
> And AFAIK, Walter doesn't disagree.

You should try harder, because if you don't change it soon, it will be 
there forever due to compatibility requirements.

> Andrei and I, and almost everyone else, have tried to persuade Walter to 
> remove the comma operator, but without success. But I doubt you'd be 
> able to use it for tuples, because   x, y = foo(); already has meaning 
> in C and tuples would give it a different meaning. I'd LOVE to be proved 
> wrong.

Wasn't the comma operator to be supposed to be important for automatic 
code generation?

Even if it is, you could just pick a different token to implement this 
operator. It doesn't have to be a comma, does it?

> It is very difficult to change Walter's mind about many things, but 
> despite what people say, it is not impossible.