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Issue 6957 - std.array.removeSlice
Summary: std.array.removeSlice
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: phobos (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: All All
: P4 enhancement
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Keywords: bootcamp
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Reported: 2011-11-15 16:55 UTC by bearophile_hugs
Modified: 2024-12-01 16:14 UTC (History)
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Description bearophile_hugs 2011-11-15 16:55:49 UTC 
This is a spin off of bug 6849. 

I suggest to introduce a function std.array.removeSlice (or a similar name).

It is similar to std.algorithm.remove, with some differences:
- It works on dynamic arrays.
- It works in-place, so unlike remove it changes the array "topology".
- it removes a slice, instead one or more indexes (but it's good to have an overload that remove a single item).


Why it's useful:
- Removing items from dynamic arrays is a common operation.
- The semantics of std.algorithm.remove (that leaves the input array in a wrong state) is bug prone and surprising for programmers coming from Python and other languages.
- Removing whole slices is handy and can't be done with a single line of code because D slice assignments don't support overlapping slices (they use memcpy instead of memmove).
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