On Sunday, 27 July 2014 at 08:49:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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.
Conflating both concepts with the same name is why the article was so dearly needed in the first place.
