Array literals

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:
> Yah Walter does plan to make "string literals" dynamically-sized by 
> default, but fixed-sized on demand (if you specify the appropriate 
> receiver type, which in turn asks the T[auto] question). In related 
> news, he wants to legitimize statically-typed arrays by making them true 
> value types.

Good. But why not make all array literals dynamically-sized by default , but fixed-sized on demand? Isn't that more symmetric (so the D programmer has to remember less special cased rules == simpler language)?

Bye,
bearophile