struct Slice(T)

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

Defined in:

remilib/extensions.cr

Instance Method Summary

Instance Method Detail

def toArray : Array(T) #

Returns a new Array that contains the same elements as this slice.


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