More D newb questions.

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Derek Parnell" <derek at psych.ward> wrote in message 
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>> IIRC the reason that overlapping copies are not allow is that the
>> overhead of checking them is non trivial and the code to do the copy is
>> to.

No, the reason they're not allowed is to allow for more parallel 
optimizations.

> And yet D fails at runtime if you attempt an overlap so it must already be
> doing such checking.

It does, but only in debug mode.