Re: why does phobos use [0, 5, 8, 9][] instead of [0, 5, 8, 9] in examples?

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 04/07/2015 07:40 PM, Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
Eg, code like this in std.algorithm:
assert(equal(setSymmetricDifference(a, b), [0, 5, 8, 9][]));
why not just:
assert(equal(setSymmetricDifference(a, b), [0, 5, 8, 9]));
?

It must be a leftover from the time when the type of an array literal 
was a static array (versus a dynamic one). Since static arrays are not 
ranges, the author of the code apparently has first created a slice to 
its elements.

However, today array literals are already slices.

Ali