Slincing behaviour

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:03:33 -0500, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
wrote:

> On Friday, November 11, 2011 11:46:02 RenatoL wrote:
>> int[7] arr = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7];
>> writeln(arr[$..$]);
>>
>> this simply prints a newline... I expected a runtime error (or better
>> a compile time error) but it does nothing ... why?
>
> Probably because it's length is zero and therefore isn't actually a  
> slice of
> the original array at all. It wouldn't surprise me if arr[500 .. 500]  
> worked
> exactly the same way. Because the array is empty, it doesn't really  
> matter
> what values you gave it.

I would just make a minor correction that it *is* a slice of the original  
array.  It's just an empty slice.

BTW, I would have expected the output:

[]

(and testing, I see it does do this).

-Steve