Should we remove int[$] before 2.067?

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On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 19:07:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
>
> The interesting thing is because of the tight overloading 
> rules, "s" will only match statically-sized arrays. So it's 
> okay to simply expose it as std.array.s without fear it might 
> clash with other uses of the "s" symbol. Awesome. -- Andrei

With a library method of [1, 2, 3].s, or syntax of [1, 2, 3]s, 
would this proposed $ syntax really provide any benefit? Since 
you could already use 'auto a = [1, 2, 3]' for size inference, I 
don't really see a strong benefit over 'int[$] a = [1, 2, 3]' 
with the exception that you could specify the type in the latter.

More so, I think having .s is a much better alternative if 
there's no substantial advantage to $, because it can also be 
used as an expression for purposes such as making function calls 
with a static array.

Example:
auto foo = Variant([1, 2, 3].s)
rather than
auto foo = Variant(cast(int[$])[1, 2, 3])