Editing Array slicing (section)

===2010: [[Cilk Plus]]===
Cilk Plus supports syntax for array slicing as an extension to C and C++.

<syntaxhighlight lang="c">
array_base [lower_bound:length[:stride]]*
</syntaxhighlight>
Cilk Plus slicing looks as follows:
<syntaxhighlight lang="c">
A[:]     // All of vector A
B[2:6]   // Elements 2 to 7 of vector B
C[:][5]  // Column 5 of matrix C
D[0:3:2] // Elements 0, 2, 4 of vector D
</syntaxhighlight>

Cilk Plus's array slicing differs from Fortran's in two ways:

* the second parameter is the length (number of elements in the slice) instead of the upper bound, in order to be consistent with standard C libraries;
* slicing never produces a temporary, and thus never needs to allocate memory. Assignments are required to be either non-overlapping or perfectly overlapping, otherwise the result is undefined.