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On Friday, 7 July 2017 at 00:58:57 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Friday, 7 July 2017 at 00:39:32 UTC, Meta wrote:
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>> (https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/3615)
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>> Of course this could also get confusing pretty fast. I wish we 
>> at least had the `int[$]` syntax but it's not a huge loss.
>
> Thanks for posting the link. Made for interesting reading.
>
> This was another link on the same topic:
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/bewroetnschakoqjzowa@forum.dlang.org

Yeah, it's one of those features that seemed very nice and I, at 
the very least, was disappointed that it didn't get in (of course 
Bearophile was as well). I don't really agree with Andrei's 
reason for vetoing the feature (the part about adding this 
feature being a slippery slope, not the power to complexity 
ratio), but looking back on it there are a few peculiarities with 
this syntax. For example, `immutable[] i = [0]` has the type 
`immutable(int)[]`, but to get `immutable(int[])` you have to do 
`immutable i = [0]`. I'd say that a beginner looking at this code 
would assume the opposite (although it's a very easy rule to 
learn). It's one of the problems D has with this syntax as 
opposed to C++, which has the ability to declare head-const 
arrays/pointers.