On Wednesday, 5 May 2010 at 22:42:19 UTC, Robert Clipsham wrote:
.ptr is only available for arrays. Internally, (dynamic) arrays
in D look like this:
----
struct {
size_t length;
T* ptr;
}
----
Thanks for this!! (I know this topic is old).
But it made me understand why I found that this is working
correctly:
class Storage(T)
{
T type;
this(ref ubyte[] stream)
{
static if (isArray!T)
this.type = cast(T*)(&stream); // because the array
should actually
// point to an array
else
this.type = cast(T*)(stream.ptr); // because the data
type T
// should point to the
actual data
}
}
I wonder if the difference of '&' and '.ptr' could be worth
mentioning here
https://dlang.org/spec/arrays.html
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