On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:31:39 -0400, Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
On 25.04.2011 17:36, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Not when a string is defined internally as struct { size_t length;
immutable(char)* ptr; }. Casting to char* is a pointer to the start
of the length, not the pointer.
Try it.
I thought that "feature" was removed from D2? Just tested it, and it's
definitely not removed yet. But it will be :)
How exactly this feature will be removed? Disallowing opCast() which
does this explicitly? ;)
Currently, casting an array to a pointer is a special case of casting in
the compiler, which basically returns arr.ptr. However, that
functionality is already available via arr.ptr.
I think the special case can be disallowed. opCast will remain as-is.
-Steve
