On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:45:14 -0500, Kagamin <s...@here.lot> wrote:
dsimcha Wrote:
Funny, as simple as it is, this is a great idea for std.array because it
shortens the verbose cast(int) a.length to one extra character. You
could even put an assert in it to check in debug mode only that the
conversion is safe.
> int ilength(void[] a) @property
> {
> return cast(int)a.length;
> }
I'm not sure the code is correct. I have a vague impression that void[]
is like byte[], at least, it's used as such, and conversion from int[]
to byte[] multiplies the length by 4.
Yes, David has proposed a corrected version on the Phobos mailing list:
http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/phobos/2011-February/004493.html
-Steve
