On Saturday, 16 August 2025 at 15:44:45 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
Source: Programming in D book, page 432, chapter 68.8
Quote: It is valid to point at the imaginary element one past the end of an array.

That is not the spec, the book is wrong.

IMHO the book is *not* wrong but rather vague.
What — I think — the book tries to convey is that you can create a zero-length slice outside of the “range” of the original slice.
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