Why are immutable fields with initializers deprecated?

[Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 at 17:11:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:09:01 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> A recent discussion 
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3452 
>> brought up a matter I'd forgotten - struct fields that are 
>> immutable and have initializer are deprecated.
>>
>> Why?
>
> I think possibly it has to do with the fact that they 
> originally did not get stored per-instance. I remember a 
> conversation about this (being a bad thing), but have not 
> searched the NG for it.

http://dlang.org/changelog#staticfields2