On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 at 05:36:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 9/19/17 8:47 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
This needs to happen.

e.g.:

char[$] arr = "hello"; // syntax up for debate, but I like this.

I can't think of a correct way to do this that doesn't heap-allocate and is DRY.

D is so powerful, it's a huge shame it can't figure this one out.

issue: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481

Fix that was merged: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/3615

And then reverted: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/4373

Maybe there was an issue with the implementation? Can it be redone?

-Steve

The argument was it can be done trivially with a library solution. -- Andrei

http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#@nogc-Array-Literals:-Breaking-the-Limits

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