"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message news:mailman.866.1321013026.24802.digitalmars-d-le...@puremagic.com... > On Friday, November 11, 2011 11:46:02 RenatoL wrote: >> int[7] arr = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]; >> writeln(arr[$..$]); >> >> this simply prints a newline... I expected a runtime error (or better >> a compile time error) but it does nothing ... why? > > Probably because it's length is zero and therefore isn't actually a slice > of > the original array at all. It wouldn't surprise me if arr[500 .. 500] > worked > exactly the same way. Because the array is empty, it doesn't really matter > what values you gave it. >
Weird, I was certain that had given me bounds errors before, and so I've been careful to avoid doing it. Maybe that's changed since I last tried it.