Slincing behaviour

[Simon]

On 11/11/2011 16:56, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "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.
>
>

You get bounds error in debug, but not release.
The bit about slices says you must not depend on bounds checking.

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