On Sunday 24 October 2010 05:17:30 Joel C. Salomon wrote: > Looking through the TDPL errata I came across this: > > On 07/26/2010 11:15 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > > Here's some more for the Errata (I've checked against the cached one): > > > > Page 26: "In D, slicing could never occur." > > > > This should probably be "In D slicing, this could never occur." > > Actually, this is not talking about D’s (array) slicing but C++’s > (object) slicing. The line should read as is, or as, “In D, such > slicing could …”; perhaps with the word “slicing” in quotes to > distinguish it from other uses of the word elsewhere. > > —Joel
LOL. Yes, in D, slicing is a _good_ thing, whereas in C++, it's a problem to watch out for. Now if only we'd found some cool feature that could have been called segmentation fault... ;) - Jonathan M Davis
