A couple of questions about arrays and slices

[Cecil Ward]

On Thursday, 22 June 2023 at 01:44:22 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 7:05:28 PM MDT Paul Backus via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> [...]
>
> To add to that, it _has_ to know the element type, because 
> aside from anything related to a type's size, it bit-blits the 
> type's init value onto the new elements when it increases the 
> length of the dynamic array.
>
> You'd probably be dealing with bytes if you were explicitly 
> asking for memory and the like (e.g. with malloc), but a 
> dynamic array is properly typed, and everything you do with it 
> in @safe code is going to deal with it as properly typed. For 
> it to be otherwise would require @system casts.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Thankyou Jonathan!