Array of pointers

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 1/16/14, Philippe Sigaud <philippe.sigaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> The thing is, an array is a reference type

Actually it's not, let's not confuse people with the terminology here.
To recap for people new to arrays: an array in D is really just a
struct, e.g.:

struct Array
{
    int* data;
    size_t length;
}

Array myArray;

Once you know this it's easy to understand why passing myArray by
value to a function allows you to change the contents of "data", but
changing what "data" points to or changing the length of the array
will not be reflected at the call site, *unless* you've passed myArray
to a function by reference.