| author |  Jason Ho <jasonho353@gmail.com> 2022-08-31 20:53:00-05:00 |
| committer |  GitHub <noreply@github.com> 2022-08-31 21:53:00-04:00 |
| log | 2b92c5a23e912df56885ff10d690ff7bfd1e3f47 |
| tree | 9151f5152df9d05c407707993a087a982144a8d2 |
| parent | 7a733b9385e77bc6b9aa1c62ca180a6ba9f14f3f |
| signature |  Signed by PGP key 4AEE18F83AFDEB23 |
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>1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
doc/langref.html.in+1-1
| ... | ... | @@ -2631,7 +2631,7 @@ test "Conversion between vectors, arrays, and slices" { |
| 2631 | 2631 | </li> |
| 2632 | 2632 | </ul> |
| 2633 | 2633 | <ul> |
| 2634 | <li>{#syntax#}[]T{#endsyntax#} - pointer to runtime-known number of items. | |
| 2634 | <li>{#syntax#}[]T{#endsyntax#} - is a slice (a fat pointer, which contains a pointer of type {#syntax#}[*]T{#endsyntax#} and a length). | |
| 2635 | 2635 | <ul> |
| 2636 | 2636 | <li>Supports index syntax: {#syntax#}slice[i]{#endsyntax#}</li> |
| 2637 | 2637 | <li>Supports slice syntax: {#syntax#}slice[start..end]{#endsyntax#}</li> |