Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > > > What I'm saying is that with the cache in place we'll have slices that > are safe and efficient. Right now they are not safe and not efficient. I > can hardly find reasons to characterize the new state of affairs as kludgey.
I'm not sure I agree that they'd be safe. Given only a pointer to the head of a block there's no way to know whether it represents the array or a slice of the array from [0..n].
