why static array can be reassigned with new allocation?

[mw]

On Sunday, 16 October 2022 at 20:26:58 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 October 2022 at 10:31:16 UTC, matheus wrote:
>> On Friday, 14 October 2022 at 20:19:20 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>> ...
>>> The compiler does not perform detailed analysis of all code. 
>>> Since that 5 could be a runtime expression, the compiler does 
>>> not check it at compile time.
>>> ...
>>
>> Yes but in this case it's known during the compiling time 
>> (Literal 5), couldn't this be checked a prevented?
>>

The main problem in the OP example is that: mixing 
pointer/reference types and value types in the same assignment 
statement, and the compiler didn't complain.

I just logged an issue, and think we should deprecate it:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23420

>
> It could. And it's not hard to add it but I'm not sure it would 
> be accepted.
>
> We should instead deprecate