On 02/20/2017 07:00 AM, timmyjose wrote:

> slice can be spawned off into a brand new array upon assigning data to
> it (in the book "Learning D", which I find very nice so far).

It's not assigning data to a slice, but adding elements to it: It *may* spawn off a new array. You can use .capacity to see whether that will be the case:

  http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/slices.html#ix_slices..capacity

Related to your earlier question on multi-dimensional array syntax, which you seem to find "brilliant": :)


http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/slices.html#ix_slices.multi-dimensional%20array

Also, there is the following article which explains the inner workings of slices:

  https://dlang.org/d-array-article.html

Ali

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