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		andrewstuart2 on March 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: a[low:high:max] in Golang – A Rare Slice Trick That's just not true. There are immutable arrays in length. [4]int cannot be appended to. The backing of all slices are array types and array doubling is used for appends that go beyond the capacity. https://go.dev/ref/spec#Array_types

yencabulator on March 20, 2023 | [–]

No array can change its length, the length is part of the type. There really are no "immutable array"s.

tedunangst on March 18, 2023 | [–]

Yeah, that was a mistake.

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