[Issue 1482] std.file docs are insufficient

[Stewart Gordon]

<d-bugmail at puremagic.com> wrote in message 
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<snip>
> IMO D or Phobos should have a simple syntax or template that allows you to
> convert any variable to a void[], which is essentially a void* and a 
> length.
> Currently I use this (pretty crude) template (which likely can be 
> rewritten in
> a much better way):
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And I use

    cast(void[]) (&var)[0..1]

Of course, you'd need to .dup it if you want it to be valid after var has 
gone out of scope.

Stewart.