On Friday, November 11, 2011 11:46:02 RenatoL wrote: > int[7] arr = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]; > writeln(arr[$..$]); > > this simply prints a newline... I expected a runtime error (or better > a compile time error) but it does nothing ... why?
Probably because it's length is zero and therefore isn't actually a slice of the original array at all. It wouldn't surprise me if arr[500 .. 500] worked exactly the same way. Because the array is empty, it doesn't really matter what values you gave it. - Jonathan M Davis
