On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 08:39:17AM -0700, Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On 4/12/22 21:34, Salih Dincer wrote: > > > I tried the following and I didn't understand one thing: Why is > > there no need to use dup when slicing? [...]
Because of two things: (1) there is a GC, and (2) characters in a string are immutable. Without (1), you will end up with either a memory leak or a dangling pointer; without (2), your slice may randomly mutate when you don't expect it to. T -- May you live all the days of your life. -- Jonathan Swift
