struct Slice(T)

• Slice(T)
• Struct
• Value
• Object

Overview

A Slice is a Pointer with an associated size.

While a pointer is unsafe because no bound checks are performed when reading from and writing to it, reading from and writing to a slice involve bound checks. In this way, a slice is a safe alternative to Pointer.

A Slice can be created as read-only: trying to write to it will raise. For example the slice of bytes returned by String#to_slice is read-only.

Included Modules

• Comparable(Slice(T))
• Indexable::Mutable(T)

Defined in:

Instance Method Summary

• #to_json(json : JSON::Builder)

  Encodes the slice as a base64 encoded string

Instance Method Detail