Final by default?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Steven Schveighoffer"  wrote in message 
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> I would also mention that a "band-aid" fix, if you are always using 
> x.length = 0, is to special case that in the runtime to automatically 
> reset the used size to 0 as well. This is a specialized application, I 
> would think tweaking the runtime is a possibility, and a temporary fix 
> like this until you can update your code would at least provide an 
> intermediate solution.

That would risk breaking code in druntime/phobos.