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.
