On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 05:55:58 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
I'm completely opposed to changing the official terminology.
Why?
What buys it, to have two terms "slice" and "dynamic array" if
they mean exactly the same thing?
Especially if we have two different things, the memory and the
reference to the memory, but both terms are only adressin the
second thing.
I would prefer to have one term meaning the one thing and the
other term meaning the other thing.
Words are changing meaning over the years, and I think it is very
instructive to use "dynamic array" to mean the memory, and
"slice" to mean the reference to the memory - as done in the
article. May be that was not the original meaning of those terms
but it is useful, instructive and unambigous, so it should go in
the official terminology. (otherwise we would need a new, third
term to describe the "other thing" that is not directly
accessible in the current language spec wording - but we have
none and it would only increase the confusion).
