Arrays, openarrays, varargs

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Arrays

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Openarray are a parameter-only type that represent a (pointer, length) pair. In other languages they are also known as slices, ranges, views, spans.

The name openArray is inherited from Pascal, Oberon and Modula 2

Arrays and sequences are implictily converted to openArray.

The compiler has a limited form of escape analysis to prevent capturing openarrays in closures or returning them.

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