On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 17:33:32 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 05/30/2013 09:23 AM, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> Note, that there is no problem with alising of slice and
dynamic
> array, but there is problem with denying that dynamic array
(according
> to spec) is a slice.
That gets back to your "banana" example. Slice and dynamic
array is the same thing only because the spec says so. They do
not have the same semantics of dynamic arrays as I know in
programming.
They are not dynamic in the sense that they are on the heap.
(Both your and my examples have trivially shown that.)
Further, they are not arrays in the sense that they own
elements.
Therefore, calling this concept "dynamic array" is a historical
accident. The spec may call it "dynamic array" but the spec
cannot change what "dynamic array" means.
Ali
Really it is repetition of banana example. One article severely
changes spec because there is opinion that existing spec
contradicts some ideas. And now it is claimed that some things
are false just because they are false. It is a hijack of language
which allows to anyone whose opinion is somewhat different to D
to claim that his opinion is what D actually is. Without Walter
or Andrei approval such claims are cheap.
