On 05/29/2013 10:54 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote: > And this is a problem, because article about D slices encourages to call > some raw memory (which almost never is directly manipulated and doesn't > appear in source code) as a dynamic array, and dynamic array as a slice.
An array is simply consecutive elements in memory. There are two types of arrays: static (aka fixed-length) and dynamic.
Slice is not an array itself: It is both an accessor to array elements (static or dynamic) and a tool that can spawn a new dynamic array when another element is appended to its view.
Documentations use "slice" and "dynamic array" synonymously because of the latter semantics.
Ali
