Why are immutable fields with initializers deprecated?

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:09:01 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> A recent discussion  
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3452 brought up a  
> matter I'd forgotten - struct fields that are immutable and have  
> initializer are deprecated.
>
> Why?

I think possibly it has to do with the fact that they originally did not  
get stored per-instance. I remember a conversation about this (being a bad  
thing), but have not searched the NG for it.

-Steve