On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 17:01:07 UTC, anonymous wrote:
A compiler change disallowing such use of arrays was done and then reverted. See <https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4733>. I haven't followed things closely enough to give you a good summary.
Basically, almost everyone wanted the change, but it broke some of Andrei and Vladamir's code, because they were actually relying on the current behavior (which most everyone thinks is error-prone), and that convinced Walter that it wasn't worth the code breakage. So, it was reverted.
- Jonathan M Davis
