On Friday, July 7, 2017 1:48:47 PM MDT Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > I would add a note to the "static arrays are interchangeable with > dynamic arrays" saying that you can... and probably should > explicitly slice them with `[]`. > > The implicit slice is one of what I see as D's design flaws and > brings up a number of problems. dip1000 and similar things might > be able to fix the problems without changing the feature, but I > won't be surprised if after a couple more years, we see that > implicit slice get deprecated.
The trick is convincing Walter. The last time I brought it up with him, he thought that improvements to @safe would fix the problem - and they will help - but it interacts badly with templated code, and I think that from a code clarity standpoint, the slicing needs to be explicit. So, I'm of the opinion that implicit slicing should simply be deprecated regardless of the state of @safe, but I don't know how possible it is to convince Walter of that. Fixing the @safe issues is at least a start though. - Jonathan M Davis
