static array with inferred size

[Stefan Koch]

On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 at 12:08:45 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 09/20/2017 07:49 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 10:59:56 Per Nordlöw via 
>> Digitalmars-d
>> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 at 09:13:52 UTC, Jonathan M 
>>> Davis
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12625
>>>>
>>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>>
>>> Looks like we should we wait for
>>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7110 to be merged before 
>>> adding
>>> `s` to druntime.
>> 
>> It also should have a much more descriptive name (e.g. 
>> staticArray, though
>> maybe that's a bit long), and I think that std.array really 
>> does make more
>> sense than object.d. object.d is for stuff that's essentially 
>> built-in, not
>> for helper functions.
>
> Agreed. Also: the length of the name should not be a problem, 
> this is not a frequently used facility. -- Andrei

I do strongly disagree with this approach, rather we should type 
array literals as static arrays by default and rely on implicit 
conversion to slices.