Should we remove int[$] before 2.067?

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:

> On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 16:09:02 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:56:17 +0000, eles wrote:
>>
>>> Propensity for bike-shedding behind the covers of intellectual
>>> refinement puzzles me.
>>
>> this is part of "be smart!" strategy. anyone who is not smart enough
>> doesn't deserve the right to use D. and "being smart" means "manually
>> do the work that compiler can automate".
> 
> It would help if dynamic-array/slice/fixed-size-array and
> value/reference/ownership types had been well designed from the get go.
> 
> Inconsistencies in syntax and special casing the typing requires the
> user to "be smart", because the language is "dumb". But making the
> compiler smarter to fix a dumb language is the wrong path. The right
> thing to do is to redesign what is "dumb" (the language).

i agree with you, but it's really too late to redesign. :-(
it's not about "code breaking", people just will not join D3 (or 
something) developement at this stage. especially if Walter and Andrei 
will not join (and i doubt they will).
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