Bug 7087 – Produce compiler diagnostic when escaping slice to local static array

Although both are "escaping reference to local" data, only one of the following functions produces a compilation error. int * ret_elem_ptr() { int[3] a; return &a[0]; // GOOD: compilation ERROR } int[] ret_slice() { int[3] a; return a[]; // BAD: no help } void main() {} It would be nice to receive a compilation error when returning a slice as well. This would catch bugs, because programmers rely on slices' keeping their data alive in most situation. Unfortunately that's not the case here. Ali

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 8838 ***