https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481
--- Comment #38 from Shriramana Sharma <[email protected]> --- Hmmm. I read through the thread starting at http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]. I think I sorta see the point of the developers here. While I still think [$] is a cool little tidbit, I also have to agree with the comment which said "let's not add every little tidbit to the language". The title of the request is "letting compiler determine length for fixed-length arrays", not specifically to add [$]. Having the compiler determine the length can be done in many ways, and given that I already have to go to the library for a lot of commonly used stuff like writeln and to!, this one doesn't seem too much more. Although it *does* seem like something you should have out of the box, so do stuff like print()... :-) The one thing the library solution probably cannot address would be the convoluted examples like a fixed-size array of a dynamic array of fixed-size arrays, but let's face it: those are really contrived examples and not worth introducing a language feature for... I'm leaving my votes in since I do want *something* to be done to address the actual request, since any such library solution is ATM still sitting over at http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/f49a97e35974 and not actually included in Phobos. BTW I don't think it should be named just 's' in the std.array module, but something more meaningful, like fixedLengthArray (yikes, yes I know, but I'm open to suggestions) and one can always do something like: import std.array: f = fixedLengthArray; --
