Passing dynamic arrays

[Daniel Gibson]

bearophile schrieb:
> Jens Mueller:
> 
>> I find this behavior rather strange.
> 
> I don't know if it's strange, but surely it is a little bug-prone corner of D. I have had two or three bugs in my code because of that.
> 

If you pass a dynamic array to a function and chance it's size within the 
function, you have undefined behaviour - you never know if it will affect the 
original array (from the calling function) or not.

So IMHO a compiler warning would  be appropriate in that case.

(It would be even better to have more consistent array handling throughout the 
different kinds of arrays, as I wrote in another branch of this thread, but if 
that is no option, for example because it contradicts TDPL, a compiler warning 
is a good compromise)

Cheers,
- Daniel