struct to byte[]

[Luís Marques]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Kirk McDonald wrote:
>> Foo f;
>> ubyte[] u = (cast(ubyte*)&f)[0 .. Foo.sizeof];
> 
> Or:
> 
> Foo f;
> ubyte[] u = cast(ubyte[])(&f[0..1]);
> 
> This works more cleanly with types of size > 1 as well, but IIRC 
> basically asserts[1] (Foo.sizeof % T.sizeof == 0). So don't use this 
> code if you're not sure it will fit exactly into a T[].
> 
> 
> [1]: Statically? Don't recall at the moment...

I have been using Kirk's version. Frits' variant is interesting 
(thanks!). Still, is there a reason not to allow a direct cast to 
ubyte[]? I don't see much of a problem and I suppose it wouldn't be much 
work (no?). It seems so much cleaner and readable to just cast it directly.