D Language Foundation June 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

[Paul Backus]

On Thursday, 13 July 2023 at 14:00:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Finally, I told everyone about a conversation I'd had with 
> someone who was planning to submit a proposal to add slices to 
> C. Walter was happy to hear about that, as he had been 
> informally pushing for that for years. He talked about his 
> article on the topic ([C's Biggest 
> Mistake](https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html)) and how C++ had copied that mistake. He says it can be backward compatible in C and analogous to D's slices, it just wouldn't allocate memory for you.

Last time this topic came up, I did some research and found a 
proposal for slices in C23 that was ultimately rejected:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/jofetbpwdufuhjznvtja@forum.dlang.org

If they have not already, the author of this new proposal may 
wish to familiarize themself with N2660 and its reception by WG 
14.