Passing dynamic arrays

[spir]

On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:42:13 -0500
"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think of an array as a hybrid between a reference and a value type.  The  
> data is passed by reference, the length is passed by value.  This mean  
> changing the length only affects the local copy, but changing the data  
> affects all arrays that point to that data.

The pointer is passed by value as well. Thinking at an array as a fat pointer, a (pointer,length) tuple, well, the whole tuple is a plain value.

Denis
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