On Sunday, 27 July 2014 at 05:51:46 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
On Saturday, 26 July 2014 at 23:06:02 UTC, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
Thereafter can come sub-slice examples and so on.
Does this make sense?
Yes, the reference documentation is pretty terrible with naming
of various array concepts.
IIRC, when this was discussed in the past, a majority seemed to
be in favour of using "slice" and "dynamic array" for their
respective concepts instead of the current situation, but I
also remember there was some opposition (for reason I can't
remember). A pull request updating the documentation to use
slice/dynamic array might weed them out ;)
As defined by the language, T[] is a dynamic array. As great as
the article is, it was wrong in its use of the terminology, and
that's what's caused a lot of the confusion and resulted in
arguments over the difference between a dynamic array and a slice
(there really isn't any). IIRC, both Walter and Andrei stated in
that discussion that T[] is a dynamic array as far as D is
concerned and that's not going to change. The article really
should be updated to reflect the correct terminology. As far as D
is concerned a slice and a dynamic array are the same thing when
it comes to arrays. They're just different names for T[], and
trying to treat them as different just causes confusion.
- Jonathan M Davis
