The demise of T[new]

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Walter Bright wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> I remember seeing a lot of CTFE code that created a dynamic array and
>> then appended stuff to it, like for example to build a list of prime
>> numbers. Would that still work with ArrayBuilder?
> 
> Probably not. But you can rewrite:
> 
>   a ~= stuff;
> 
> as:
> 
>   a = a ~ stuff;
> 
> to make it work.

Is there any reason the first can't be a short-hand for the second?