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[Daniel Keep]

Luís Marques wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
> 
>> Slices are effectively the same thing as arrays (they work in 
>> precisely the same way).
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm nitpicking but it might be better to refer to slices as an 
> operation, returning a new array reference, instead of comparing them to 
> arrays directly.
> 
> -- 
> Luís

I could be completely wrong, but this is how I've always looked at it:

slice, n: a section of memory denoted by a starting address and a number 
of elements.

slice, v: the operation of creating a new slice given a starting address 
and a number of elements from a section of memory.

So "slices" is the plural of the noun "slice", not the verb "slice" :P

I think.  Maybe.

   -- Daniel