Dynamic arrays in D 1.0

[Walter Bright]

Edward Diener wrote:
> In the dynamic array world I would have expected functionlaity for 
> erasing part of the array, inserting a new array at some point in the 
> array, and for replacing any part of the array with another array of any 
>  length. The replace is merely an erase + insert under the covers. Of 
> course I am also talking about arrays of the same type.

I agree.

> Since dynamic arrays are part of the language and not a separate library 
> I would have expected built-in functionality to manipulate them easily. 
> Of course it can be in a library, but it seems even a general purpose 
> dynamic array library does not exist for D 1.0, so that seems odd to me.

It's demand driven <g>. Some of the functions in std.string may seem odd 
for someone coming from the C++ world, but they are functionally 
equivalent to Python's and Ruby's string functions.