Why is `scope` planned for deprecation?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/18/2014 1:12 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:44:35PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 11/18/2014 12:10 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:45:13AM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>> I'm sorry to say this, but these rationalizations as to why C cannot
>>>> add a trivial enhancement that takes nothing away and solves most of
>>>> the buffer overflow problems leaves me shaking my head.
>>>
>>> What's the trivial thing that will solve most buffer overflow
>>> problems?
>>
>> http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/cs-biggest-mistake/228701625
>
> That's not a trivial change at all -- it will break pretty much every C
> program there is out there. Just think of how much existing C code
> relies on this conflation between arrays and pointers, and implicit
> conversions between them.

No, I proposed a new syntax that would have different behavior:

   void foo(char a[..])