On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 19:01:02 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Currently, allocators traffic in void[]. When I first designed
allocators, I considered using ubyte[] instead.
I experimented with using byte[] for opaque buffers, because byte
is signed, one can't parse byte[] content in a meaningful way,
and should cast to ubyte[] first, so byte[] is practically opaque
(if you're careful).
However, using void[] makes it difficult to express the fact
that allocate() is a safe function for virtual all allocators.
Safe code should only use typed allocation (make) and never see
underlying implementation.
