auto with array of strings (BUG?)

[bearophile]

Justin:

>Is there a reason that the compiler makes the assumptions it does or is this a bug? I did try searching the bugzilla with a few different queries, but failed to turn up anything that looked likely.<

I don't know if it can be considered a bug, or just a design error. What I know is that it's a bug-prone feature of D1. It will be partially fixed in D2, but I'd like to see such feature changed in D1 too, that is I'd like array/string literals to produce dynamic arrays by default (and then to have another syntax to specify fixed-size arrays).
Dynamic arrays are more flexible and safer, so according to the D philosophy they have to be the default case :-)

Bye,
bearophile