Dynamic arrays

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 21:29:09 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On Monday 31 August 2015 23:09, Minas Mina wrote:
>
>> I have started a series of tutorials in D.
>> 
>> This is my latest blog post, which is about dynamic arrays: 
>> http://minas-mina.com/2015/08/31/dynamic-arrays/
>> 
>> Constructive criticism is welcome.
>
> "Dynamic arrays are allocated on the garbage collected heap" 
> "Dynamic arrays can be sliced"
>
> These are not wrong, but maybe a little bit misleading.
>
> Static arrays and pointers can be sliced, too. And a slice of a 
> static array or pointer is ... dramatic pause ... a dynamic 
> array that doesn't necessarily refer to the GC heap.

I prefer the term "slice" to dynamic array. Because it's an 
unfamiliar term it helps prevent confusion for people who are 
used to what other languages call dynamic arrays.