char[]/ubyte[] compile error

[Johan Engelen via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Thursday, 13 July 2017 at 13:02:23 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>>
>> Array
>> {
>>     size_t length;
>>     char* ptr;
>> }
>>
>> [1] http://dlang.org/spec/abi.html#arrays
>
> I do this for interacting with Cython and it works well for me.

I think such a C-like construct that is equivalent with slices 
really should be part of Phobos/druntime somehow. What do you 
think John?