I don't like slices in D

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Saturday, 19 October 2013 at 03:46:52 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> By avoiding the concatenation operators and expansion through 
> increasing the length property, slices can be used separately 
> from the runtime's opaque dynamic array type. Slices can be 
> backed by any memory by slicing a pointer or fixed-length 
> array. Also, slices with compile-time initializers are backed 
> either by TLS or global memory.

Also, string literals are backed by global memory (sometimes ROM).

> There is also one incidence in the language where such a 
> non-runtime-backed slice appears implicitly:

To clarify: there is one incidence where a slice of *stack 
memory* is implicitly created.