https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481
--- Comment #36 from Shriramana Sharma <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Ketmar Dark from comment #35) > sorry, i messed dates. :-) > > the `[$]` patch was first merged, and then reverted. this feature will not > be in D2, ever: it was decided that one can do almost the same thing with > some template magic. it was decided by W&A, so there's no reason to argue if > this feature should be included, Masters says their word on it. Sorry, but I don't think "masters' word" is a technically valid reason for rejecting the request outright. No matter how much work someone put into the language and its compiler, just saying no without saying why or what else can be done is not acceptable. It simply rubs community people the wrong way. If this particular patch's approach to the problem wasn't acceptable, that's a different thing, but the idea itself is most sane and I don't see any reasons provided as to why it should be rejected. Further, I don't get how Walter/Andrei are supposed to have nixed this. Below in comment #1, Andrei only has something positive to say about this, and neither he nor Walter have said anything negative... --
