New feature in git-head: Uniform construction for built-in types

[Daniel N]

On Thursday, 27 March 2014 at 06:11:01 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> I've pushed for this for ages. Pointers to built-in types are 
> seriously
> hampered without it, and it helps generic code considerably to 
> have it. It was
> one of those things that I was shocked to find out didn't work 
> from the get-
> go.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Yay, fantastic! I dreamt of this feature for years, it's one of 
the very few areas where D used to be worse than C++.