deep copy or shallow copy?

[Timon Gehr]

On 12/08/2011 09:50 PM, RenatoL wrote:
> snippet 1)
> 	auto arr1 = [1,2,3];
> 	auto arr2 = arr1;
> 	arr1[1] = 22;
> 	arr2[2] = 33;
> 	foreach (i; 0..arr1.length) write(arr1[i], " ");
> 	writeln();
> 	foreach (i; 0..arr2.length) write(arr2[i], " ");
>
> output:
> 1 22 33
> 1 22 33
> OK
>
> snippet 2)
>
> 	int[3] arr1 = [1,2,3];
> 	int[3] arr2 = arr1;
> 	arr1[1] = 22;
> 	arr2[2] = 33;
> 	foreach (i; 0..arr1.length) write(arr1[i], " ");
> 	writeln();
> 	foreach (i; 0..arr2.length) write(arr2[i], " ");
>
> output:
>
> 1 22 3
> 1 2 33
>
> that's unclear to me... i "agree" with the behaviour of the
> dynamic array... but if we have a static array we have a deep copy?

Both copies are 'shallow', but static arrays are value types.