Slices in D vs Go

[Daniel Davidson]

On Saturday, 19 October 2013 at 12:08:49 UTC, Daniel Davidson 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 October 2013 at 04:52:31 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
> wrote:
>> Do to the recent slices discussion I did some investigation on 
>> what is different in Go. Thus, created this
>>
>> http://he-the-great.livejournal.com/48672.html
>
> It starts with:
>     int[] original;
>     original.reserve(5);
>     writeln("orig cap: ", original.capacity); // 7
>     writeln("orig len: ", original.length); // 0
>
> Further down says: "But to discuss behavior we'll need some 
> elements."
>
> and immediately proceeds with code accessing original where no 
> data has been added:
>
>     auto slice = original[1..$];
>     writeln("slice cap: ", slice.capacity); // 6
>     writeln("slice len: ", slice.length); // 2
>     original[0]++;
>     slice[0]++;
>     slice[1]++;
>     writeln("orig: ", original); // [1, 2, 3]
>
> I don't know where the [1,2,3] comes from.  The first 
> original[1..$] will crash. Maybe you are forgetting the actual 
> initialization of original with data?

Ahh ok. You may want to point to the fact that you are referring 
to a larger and complete code file linked at the bottom of the 
page.