Array indexing and slicing

[Luís Marques]

In article <e0rrgk$1gko$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Norbert Nemec says...
>That may be fine for "a", but it scales up very badly if you replace a
>by a more complex expression.

Notice that I did say I still prefer $ to the verbose .length, not that I prefer
using .length
I just find it ugly.

>	somearray[1..$-1,1..$-1]

or somearray[1..-2,1..-2]

>* omissive indexes are a nice abbreviation but have far less power than
>the "$" symbol

Which cases are you thinking about?

>* negative indices would have to be checked for at run time giving a
>performace penalty that is unacceptable if D tries to aim for a position
>in the league of high-performance computing languages.

Kind of like array out of bounds exceptions, which is already implemented?

Thanks for you feedback,

Luís