Void pointers

[Alex via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 22:54:31 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 05/17/2016 12:43 AM, Alex wrote:
>> The point is, that in my model the slice has a meaning itself. 
>> So, the
>> language provides one of a needed constructs...
>
> Huh? As far as I understand, the pointer of the slice is 
> invalid, and you never dereference it. What kind of additional 
> meaning can the slice carry then? It's practically just a 
> struct of two `size_t`s.

the elements of the slice are accessible just for reading, right, 
but with them I reference the data in other objects.