Dynamic array and slices (need Walter and Andrei decision)

[Brad Anderson]

On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 20:19:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> T[] is both. You can use it to take a slice of any piece of 
> memory, including freshly GC-allocated arrays. But when you try 
> e.g. to append to it with ~=, that only works if the slice 
> originated as a GC-allocated array.
>
> Andrei

It actually works with any slice and will create a new 
GC-allocated array and point to that for non-GC allocated arrays.

void main()
{
	char* a = cast(char*) malloc(5);
	auto slice_a = a[0..5];
	slice_a ~= char.init;
	assert(slice_a.ptr != a);
}