On Wednesday, 25 January 2017 at 22:59:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
So, yes, if all you're planning to do is look at the pointer to
the first element in the array, then &arr[0] is safer, but odds
are quite low that that's actually what you're going to do, and
in all of the other cases, you might as well just use .ptr. So,
telling folks to go use &arr[0] instead of .ptr doesn't seem
very helpful to me.
Pehaps it should say something like: arr.ptr is deprecated in
@safe code. Use &arr[0] for checked access or remove the @safe
attribute.
That would make it clear that .ptr is not an issue, only .ptr in
@safe.
