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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Sergey Gromov wrote:
> My T[] is useful when you want to recursively split a megabyte file into 
> a couple thousands of tokens, and then modify some of those tokens.  For 
> that, your T[] must be lightweight, it must reference a bigger piece of 
> data, and it must guarantee not to write anything into memory outside 
> its boundaries.
> 
> The Array is for appending.  It must always own its memory.  Therefore 
> you should be able to pass it around by reference, so Array is a *class* 
> and cannot be nearly as lightweight as T[].
> 
> You see, many of their properties are orthogonal.  If you drop one, you 
> lose flexibility.
> 
>> Besides, Array!(T) is not a good name for build-in type.
> 
> Names are placeholders here, not an actual proposal.

What's wrong with making Array a library type?

Andrei