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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
> 
> I like this general proposal, it sounds like something that can improve D a little. There are many other things that have to be improved in D, but baby steps are enough to go somewhere :-)
> 
>> Slices will retain the old:
>>     T[] slice;
>> syntax. Resizeable arrays will be declared as:
>>     T[new] array;
> 
> Such syntaxes have to be chosen wisely. I don't fully understand that syntax. And maybe I don't fully like it.

Why am I not surprised :o).

> I think the default (simpler) syntax has to be the most flexible and safer construct, that is resizable arrays. Slices can be seen as an optimization, so they can have a bit longer syntax.

Slices will remain ubiquitous, arrays probably not so much.


Andrei