primitive vector types

[Christopher Wright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> Please make them value types.  I, for one, am tired of dealing with 
>> their crap.
> 
> Ok, you just tipped the balance :o). I'm also realizing something. The 
> scenario I'm most afraid of is something like:
> 
> char[10000] humongous = "This is a humongous message. I will type here 
> exactly 10000 characters. ... ";

This is less of an issue with the type of string literals being 
invariant(T)[] rather than invariant(T)[length]. Even less so if the 
default type for array literals were dynamic rather than static arrays.