Re: Array Defenitions

2013-11-13 Thread Jesse Phillips 
On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 20:44:04 UTC, Jeroen Bollen 
wrote:
I feel there is a lack of resources/documentation on array 
definitions. I cannot believe the official documentation tries 
to explain how D handles arrays without defining an array a 
single time.


http://dlang.org/arrays.html


Could you provide information on what you are looking for. The 
document states,


"Dynamic arrays consist of a length and a pointer to the array 
data. Multiple dynamic arrays can share all or parts of the array 
data."


We have started using the same terminology as Go and are now 
formally calling them slices, but still use array casually.


I can agree that "point and length" doesn't have a connection 
with semantics and use, but that is what they are. (The runtime 
maintains a block of memory somewhere that the slice points to)

Re: Array Defenitions

2013-11-13 Thread Andrej Mitrovic 
On 11/13/13, Jeroen Bollen  wrote:
> I feel there is a lack of resources/documentation on array
> definitions. I cannot believe the official documentation tries to
> explain how D handles arrays without defining an array a single
> time.
>
> http://dlang.org/arrays.html
>

See if this helps: http://dlang.org/d-array-article.html

Array Defenitions

2013-11-13 Thread Jeroen Bollen 
I feel there is a lack of resources/documentation on array 
definitions. I cannot believe the official documentation tries to 
explain how D handles arrays without defining an array a single 
time.


http://dlang.org/arrays.html