On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 16:53:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
I'm not the one to make the decision, but I'd vote for
codifying this
behaviour in the language reference. From what I understand, at
least,
it seems that this is the intention anyway, and the current
implementation certainly suggests so. Otherwise, it leads to
strange
awkward semantics where passing AA's around may sometimes
change the
original "view" of it, and sometimes not.
I agree, we already have this behaviour with regular arrays,
that's why Dragos thought AA act the same. But for arrays it is
out of necessity, because slice store (and expose in the API!) a
pointer to the data, while AAs can afford to act differently,
because their implementation is opaque.
