Issue 3789 and some interesting pull requests

[bearophile]

Maybe Kenji and others have fixed one important bug:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3789

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On GitHub there are many open pull requests for dmd, and some of 
them look quite interesting (even if some of them probably need 
to be improved):

This allows to support a[$-1, 2..$], it's useful to implement a 
good vector library in D:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/443

To improve the type merging in array literals:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/684

__ctfeWrite and __ctfeWriteln, I'm asking for a better compile 
time printing since years:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/692

Taking the address of a deprecated function should trigger a 
deprecated message, etc:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1064

This is for a small but handy change in D that allows to write 
"new C().foo();" instead of "(new C()).foo();".
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1111

Support for T() syntax for build-in types. This avoids to use an 
ugly cast() in some cases:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1356

Overloading template and non-template functions:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1409

With value range propagation we can disable some array bound 
tests:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1493

To improve the use of template functions in different modules:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1660

Recursive build for the compiler:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1861

To make D more flexible, allowing the idea of a library-defined 
dup:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1943

Bye,
bearophile