Recent improvements

[Gary Willoughby]

On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 13:22:09 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> In the last days of beta3 D+Phobos is getting better in small 
> but significant ways:
>
> immutable s = ["red", "blue"];
> auto js = s.join;
>
> This is very handy because you can join arrays from constant 
> function arguments, or the result of a map that yields const 
> items, etc.
>
> -----------------------
>
> And I am finding the optional column number in error messages 
> very handy, my editor/IDE often jumps at the right column, 
> saving me tiny amounts of time that adds up making the 
> debugging nicer. The experience is just better than before.
>
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>
> auto r = [10, 20, 30].sum;
>
> This has replaced me tens of usages of:
> alias sum = reduce!q{a + b};
> Or:
> alias sum = curry!(reduce!q{a + b}, 0);
>
>
> But I have found problems because currently sum(int[]) returns 
> a long, see the discussion so far:
> https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12169
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

What is q{a + b} ?