D needs...

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On Monday, 11 May 2015 at 12:22:34 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> On Monday, 11 May 2015 at 11:59:02 UTC, Namespace wrote:
>> Inspired by ponce idioms list for D I've set up something 
>> similar.
>> There are some themes in D which come up regulary and are 
>> discussed to the vomit. If something is agreed, it gets 
>> forgotten sometimes and the theme disappears into oblivion 
>> (for a few months :P). To prevent this, I've collected some 
>> hot-discussed themes, their history and their current state. I 
>> hope this helps to avoid unnecessary discussions in the future 
>> and finally cut off these issues (either with an official 
>> decision "Nope, keep as it is" or with an implementation).
>>
>> I've tried to stay as objective as possible, but if something 
>> seems to be too subjective, please let me know, so I can fix 
>> it.
>>
>> http://dgame.github.io/dneeds/
>
> Thanks. Many programmers find fault with this problem:
>
> "No problem. But if you have more elements it could be annoying 
> to count them. That's why some D users wanted that the compiler 
> does that for them.
>
> int[$] c = [1, 2, 3]; // the compiler detects the dollar and 
> count the elements for us"

Yeah, but the given example shows you an alternative.