Inability to dup/~ for const arrays of class objects

[Ali Çehreli]

On 05/29/2013 10:54 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote:

 > And this is a problem, because article about D slices encourages to call
 > some raw memory (which almost never is directly manipulated and doesn't
 > appear in source code) as a dynamic array, and dynamic array as a slice.

An array is simply consecutive elements in memory. There are two types 
of arrays: static (aka fixed-length) and dynamic.

Slice is not an array itself: It is both an accessor to array elements 
(static or dynamic) and a tool that can spawn a new dynamic array when 
another element is appended to its view.

Documentations use "slice" and "dynamic array" synonymously because of 
the latter semantics.

Ali