Shortest way to allocate an array and initialize it with a specific value.

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On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 22:03:52 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Another option:
>
> void main()
> {
>     auto a2 = new ubyte[5];

But this causes an extra zero-initialization of a2.

>     a2[] = 0xAA;    // <-- Assign to "all elements"

Is

     auto a2 = value.repeat(size).array;

better in this regard?