Re: pointers, assignments, Garbage Collection Oh My?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 at 17:18:09 UTC, JohnnyK wrote:
export string mytest(string tstStr)
{
  string st = tstStr;
  /* abbreviated to protect the innocent but other operations
     such as concatenating and deleting may be done to st 
before the return
  */
  return st;
}


Arrays are complex, as mention see: 
http://dlang.org/d-array-article.html

The snippet shown, st references the same data as tstStr.

The comment states "concatenating," then st does not point to the 
same data as tstStr.