Opportunities for D

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On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 22:53:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/10/2014 1:57 PM, "Marc Schütz" <schuetzm at gmx.net>" wrote:
>> That leaves relatively few cases
>
> Right, and do those cases actually matter?
>

Besides what I mentioned there is also slicing and ranges (not 
only of arrays). These are more likely to be implemented as 
templates, though.

> I'm a big believe in attribute inference, because explicit 
> attributes are generally a failure with users.

The average end user probably doesn't need to use explicit 
annotations a lot, but they need to be there for library authors. 
I don't think it's possible to avoid annotations completely but 
still get the same functionality just by inferring them 
internally, if that is what you're aiming at...