Strict definition of value types and reference types

[Nicholas Smith]

On Sunday, 14 April 2013 at 02:51:35 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> slices are kind of hybrids between values and references. You 
> can also think of them as fat references. When you program in D 
> you must remember this nature of sliced, otherwise your code 
> will not work...
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Ali Çehreli uses slices as the first example for what a reference 
type is in his "Programming in D". Perhaps that is not a good 
example then.