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<div><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9164269/can-you-tell-if-an-array-is-a-view-of-another">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9164269/can-you-tell-if-an-array-is-a-view-of-another</a></div>
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<div>I basically implemented the answer from SO. I feel like the "is" gives you a good handle on things since to be true they are actually the same location in memory.</div>
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<div>On May 24, 2012, at 8:56 AM, Jonathan T. Niehof wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">It seems that there are a number of ways to check if an array is a view.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Do we have a preferred way in the API that is guaranteed to stay<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">available? Or are all of the various methods "here to stay"?<br>
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We've settled on checking array.base, which I think was the outcome of a <br>
stackoverflow thread that I can't dig up. (I'll check with the guy who <br>
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