Static arrays, typeof and IFTI?

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> I was more enthused about that, but later I realized there are very few 
> situations in which one reasonably has a fixed-size array that is large 
> enough to make counting inadequate and is also updated often enough to 
> make the feature worthwhile. It's one of those features that are nice to 
> have but are not really missed in real code.

I am not going to appreciate a language/compiler that accepts and compiles this program silently. This trap has caused a bug in my code time ago:

int[3] a = [1, 2];
void main() {}


The usage of [$] in that case avoids that kind of bug...

Bye,
bearophile