static array with inferred size

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 09/20/2017 08:41 AM, 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.

Can that be done without breakages? -- Andrei