Proper way to accept either static or dynamic array as a parameter

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 01:08:17AM +0000, Alex Bryan via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> I am having trouble discovering what the proper (or at least a proper)
> way is to write a function that can take either a static or dynamic
> array as a parameter. My current implementation consists of 2
> overloaded functions (one takes a dynamic array, the other takes a
> static array) with 99% copy/pasted code. My intuition tells me this is
> dirty, and there's a better way to do this with templates, but for the
> life of me I just can't figure it out.  Would someone be so kind as to
> please help me out?
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Just make the function take an array parameter. Static arrays will decay
into a slice (though my recommendation is to explicitly slice it with
the [] operator):

	auto myFunction(T[] data) { ... }

	T[10] staticArr;
	T[] dynArr = [ ... ];

	myFunction(staticArr);		// implicit slice, not recommended
	myFunction(staticArr[]);	// explicit slice, better
	myFunction(dynArr);


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