static array with inferred size

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On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 at 12:41:57 UTC, Stefan Koch 
wrote:
> 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.

A long time ago I believe this was the case, but it was changed 
because it caused a lot of problems. What they were I don't know.