On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 03:17:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP76
The DIP lists the benefits but does not mention any cons.A con that I can see is that it is violating the 'fail fast' principle. By silently replacing data the developer will be presented with a probably-hard-to-debug problem later down the application lifecyle (probably in an unrelated area), wasting developer time.
