Conflating both concepts with the same name is why the article
was so dearly needed in the first place.
Except that no concepts are being conflated.
Yes, they are. Consider again the sentence I quoted: "Slicing an
array means to specify a subarray of it." The word "it" is wrong;
for it to be correct, it needs to refer to the underlying memory
block, not the "array".
This was the original cause of my confusion, I believe - it led
me to think that "T[] is a dynamic array" (by which I mean a
concept I understand well from other languages) but in fact, D
has redefined the term "dynamic array" to mean something quite
different. So, not only is "T[]" NOT the concept I thought it
was, what it IS apparently goes by the same name as the concept I
had confused it with! For the sake of increased adoption of D, I
beg you to reconsider. I am not exaggerating - for a while there
I thought I was looking at a huge red flag, and if I didn't
already appreciate other strengths of D, I would have stopped
there.
