The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

[Justin Johansson]

Max Samukha Wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:30:35 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 
> >It's me as well. The decision didn't go without a fight (I had your 
> >viewpoint and Walter didn't). He convinced me with two arguments. One is 
> >that 90% of the time you actually want T[], not T[n].
> 
> The argument may be flawed because, out of those 90% of arrays, only
> small part may be initialized from array literals. Many (most?) are
> created with new or appended. I suspect dynamic arrays created from
> literals are as rare as static arrays in real world code. Probably,
> I'll investigate how exactly rare.

Is this the same argument as Andrei's rhetorical question
(in relation to proposed removal of D complex literals),
"Name me five significant complex numbers" from a few weeks ago?

(Sorry can't find the NG link just right now).