On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:43:11 +0200, Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote: > Scott S. McCoy wrote: >> array[5..] and array[..5] seem to make perfect sense to me and get rid >> of kludge like $. > > If $ were implicit, you couldn't do things like: > > array[5 .. $-3] You could if it were only optional. --Simen