Hello Andrei,
Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
This isn't about performance, this is about having one thousand casts
all over my code. It becomes a burden to cast everything to ubyte[]
when working with abstract binary data. For example, when building a
MIME multipart message with binary fields, every line needs to have a
cast in it - when we could have just used the ~= operator to append
to a void[].
Another alternative would be to allow implicitly casting arrays of any
type to const(ubyte)[] which is always safe.
sounds like something that might work.
But I think this is too
much ado about nothing - you're avoiding the type system to start
with,
I'm not sure he is (or at least, he is in a very well defined way; "I need
to look at this data as its bytes")
so use ubyte, insert a cast, and call it a day. If you have too
many casts, the problem is most likely elsewhere
You might be correct, but I don't think any of us have enough info right
now to make that assertion.
