I don't like slices in D

[Sean Kelly]

On Thursday, 17 October 2013 at 18:33:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 10/17/2013 11:00 AM, Vitali wrote:
> >
> > Here a little example (it fails):
> >
> >    void testSlices() {
> >      int[] dArr = [10, 11, 12];
> >      int[] dSlice = dArr[0..2];
> >      dSlice.length++;
>
> That operation has a potential of relocating the slice.

I'd be curious to see if this would ever relocate:

int[] dArr = [10,11,12];
const(int)[] dSlice = dArr[0..2];
dSlice.length++;

It shouldn't, since growing a const slice can never clobber the 
underlying array, but I don't know if the current implementation 
handles this case.  Still, growing a const slice seems like a 
pretty useless thing to do, since you can only expect to end up 
with default values at the end.