Re: bug in assigning to dynamic array element

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 1 November 2014 at 11:50:34 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:

this *IS* a bug. either compiler should error on this, or it shouldn't modify random memory. imagine the situation when old array contents not

only collected by GC, but that memory was allocated to something
completely different.

The old array is still alive and kicking. The left-hand side
still references it. It wasn't collected. You're not writing to
random memory.