On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 12:44:47 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Monday, November 21, 2016 12:08:30 Patric Dexheimer via
Digitalmars-d- learn wrote:
No. D doesn't have that, though it's easy enough to do the same
thing with a helper template. However, Ketmar seems to like to
use his own fork of dmd where he made changes to the language
based on his preferences. IIRC, it was proposed at one point
that $ be used in this manner to create a static array while
inferring its size (it might have even had a PR which was
rejected), and presumably, Ketmar added it to his own compiler,
because he liked the feature. But for better or worse, it's not
standard D, and if the PR was rejected like I think it was,
then it likely never will become standard D. Someone could
create a DIP for it though and argue for it. If they did that
convincingly enough, maybe it would become a feature. I suspect
that the response will be though that since it's easy enough to
just create a template to do the same thing, it's not worth
adding to the language.
- Jonathan M Davis
https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#@nogc-Array-Literals:-Breaking-the-Limits
