bug in assigning to dynamic array element

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 4 November 2014 at 01:52:00 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> sure, this decision will break some code. that's why it will 
> never be
> approved, despite all hype about "safety".
>
> at least leaving this feature "as is" should help C++ 
> programmers to
> adopt D. they used to languages that has nothing common with
> sanity. ;-)

Yes…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_point
http://dlang.org/expression

D needs a major overhaul:

1. assigns should not be expressions, but statements

2. assign should be a sequence point, not UB.

3. re-allocation should always be explicit in non-library types.

Solves all issues.