Book on slices: Mention internal representation

When I read the book, the following sentence of the reference documentation helped me greatly to understand slices:

"Slices are a view into a block of memory represented as a pointer and a length."

In this commit, I tried to integrate the gist of that into the slice section inside of "primitive-types.md".
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Peter Kolloch 2016-01-10 10:54:25 +01:00
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into memory. By nature, a slice is not created directly, but from an existing
variable binding. Slices have a defined length, can be mutable or immutable.
Internally, slices are represented as a pointer to the beginning of the data
and a length.
## Slicing syntax
You can use a combo of `&` and `[]` to create a slice from various things. The