$ for length?

[Kagamin]

On Thursday, 20 February 2014 at 10:28:43 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> How difficult would it be to allow the '$' to be used instead of
> length in something like:
>
> Thing[] ta;
> for (size_t i = 0; i < ta.$; i++)
>
> It can be used in slices, and indexes, so it might well be
> unambiguous here.

Early versions of D already had the feature: you could write 
arr[0..length], but the feature proved to be ambiguous and was 
removed.
$ is meant to be a special indexing syntax (like two dots), it's 
not a member, not a length.