Setting array length to 0 discards reserved allocation?

[Jakob Ovrum via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 27 July 2014 at 08:49:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> As defined by the language, T[] is a dynamic array. As great as 
> the article is, it was wrong in its use of the terminology, and 
> that's what's caused a lot of the confusion and resulted in 
> arguments over the difference between a dynamic array and a 
> slice (there really isn't any). IIRC, both Walter and Andrei 
> stated in that discussion that T[] is a dynamic array as far as 
> D is concerned and that's not going to change. The article 
> really should be updated to reflect the correct terminology. As 
> far as D is concerned a slice and a dynamic array are the same 
> thing when it comes to arrays. They're just different names for 
> T[], and trying to treat them as different just causes 
> confusion.

Conflating both concepts with the same name is why the article 
was so dearly needed in the first place.