Richard E Maine wrote:
> I think that Q(i:j) is fundamentally a slice. It may happen to
> be a slice that has all of the elements, but it is still a slice.
> Slices aren't deallocatable.
I personally agree with you, but the question was why we use the phrase
"whole object" and what that means. We talk about whole arrays in a lot
of places, but that does not seem appropriate here. And this, whatever
Dan says, is fundamentally a question about our standard, not
implementations. Especially since two members (OK, three if you count
me) on the committe gave different answers!
So do we actually define whole object somehow or is this a case where we
use the wrong word for the wrong purpose? Or is Dan actually right that
my example was legal and Intel's compiler was wrong?
Aleks
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