So, the extra confusion of the typeof(iota) Result return goes away when slicing arrays. auto a1 = new int[100]; auto t3 = a1.sliced(3,4,5); pragma(msg,typeof(t3)); //This prints Slice!(3u, int*) Slice!(3u, int*) t4 = a1.sliced(3,4,5); // and this works ok