Is D still alive?

[Ulrik Mikaelsson]

>> You mean that if you give an index which is too large, it just uses $
>> instead?
>> That sounds seriously bug-prone to me. I'd much rather that it blew up and
>> thus
>> told me that my program had a bug in it rather than silently trying to
>> work.
>
> Sorry, but you are wrong on this. I understand this sounds unsafe, but no.
> Most languages, I guess, just do that without any worry. In particular, I
> have frequented python and Lua mailing lists for years without even reading
> once about this beeing a misfeature (and indeed have never run into a bug
> because of this myself). It is simply the right semantics in 99.999% cases.

Isn't the real reason for this that bounds-checking is usually
completely turned-off in release-builds? Sounds like something that
could noticeably degrade runtime-performance for array-intensive code?