C++ still doesn't have good loop syntax

[user1234]

On Wednesday, 15 July 2026 at 19:23:50 UTC, Kapendev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 July 2026 at 19:06:50 UTC, user1234 wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 15 July 2026 at 17:02:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> IMO that's a workaround. Imagine that array literals are 
>> static arrays by default, then no problem. Eventually you can 
>> turn them into dynamic arrays using implicit convertion / type 
>> inference. However truth is that D cannot change such a thing 
>> given its age.
>
> The other solution I can think of that Nim is doing something 
> like this:
> ```d
> auto static_array = $[1, 2, 3]; // int[3]
> ```
>
> You can replace the `$` with any character, not important.

Yes sure, in the great tradition of D we could also imagine a 
DotExp property, i.e

```d
auto static_array = [1, 2, 3].staticarrayof;
```

🙃