Slincing behaviour

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.866.1321013026.24802.digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com...
> 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.
>

Weird, I was certain that had given me bounds errors before, and so I've 
been careful to avoid doing it. Maybe that's changed since I last tried it.