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| author | Jason Ho <jasonho353@gmail.com> | 2022-08-31 20:53:00 -0500 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-08-31 21:53:00 -0400 |
| commit | 2b92c5a23e912df56885ff10d690ff7bfd1e3f47 (patch) | |
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| parent | 7a733b9385e77bc6b9aa1c62ca180a6ba9f14f3f (diff) | |
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langref: tweak description of `[]T` (#12319)
saying []T is a pointer is confusing because zig docs say there are two types of pointers (*T and [*]T). It is more clear to say that []T is a slice type which contains a [*]T pointer and a length.
Co-authored-by: Philipp Lühmann <47984692+luehmann@users.noreply.github.com>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/langref.html.in b/doc/langref.html.in index 0d10119cb7..162ba44700 100644 --- a/doc/langref.html.in +++ b/doc/langref.html.in @@ -2631,7 +2631,7 @@ test "Conversion between vectors, arrays, and slices" { </li> </ul> <ul> - <li>{#syntax#}[]T{#endsyntax#} - pointer to runtime-known number of items. + <li>{#syntax#}[]T{#endsyntax#} - is a slice (a fat pointer, which contains a pointer of type {#syntax#}[*]T{#endsyntax#} and a length). <ul> <li>Supports index syntax: {#syntax#}slice[i]{#endsyntax#}</li> <li>Supports slice syntax: {#syntax#}slice[start..end]{#endsyntax#}</li> |