struct Y { double q; }
struct X { Y[] a; }

X x;

auto r = x.a;

r is not a reference?!?!


When updating x.a, r is not updated ;/ [I'm not sure if it just creates a slice or what]

Ok, fine!

auto r = &x.a;

Now r is a reference, great!.

But now the semantics of using the array completely change and errors abound!

Normal D pointers tend to act very nice, e.g., we don't have to use the C++ -> BS....

But with arrays it seems things are all screwed up and do not work correctly.

I can't just use r like I used x.a. I can't even use *r as things then get even more screwed up.

I want to have a slice of an array that I can append to as a sort of temporary and have it append to the main array(the end of the slice always is the end of the main array)..

I've tried assumeSafeAppend but it does nothing to help.

The reason is because i have an algorithm that generates data and stores it in an array and it is more efficient and easier to code if I can just append data to a "slice" of the array(there are no issues with overwriting).

Essentially it just acts as an alias.

By using pointers it would work but it screws up the entire syntax of all the code and then still doesn't work.







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