Sort of a meta-bug. Large portions of Phobos are relying on Bug 3534 to allow const/immutable arrays to be used as ranges, because this bug allows calling popFront() and popBack() on them. Example from std.string: sizediff_t indexOf(Char1, Char2)(in Char1[] s, in Char2[] sub, CaseSensitive cs = CaseSensitive.yes) { // Somewhere in the function body: immutable result = s.length - std.algorithm.find(s, sub).length; } This code doesn't work if std.array.popFront() is modified to not be callable on const/immutable arrays. This is just one example. There are several more across much of Phobos.
http://dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/2032