Why are void[] contents marked as having pointers?

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:10:17 +0300, Christopher Wright  
<dhasenan at gmail.com> wrote:

> bearophile wrote:
>> Christopher Wright:
>>> Another good point. Or how do you index it by byte?
>>  How can you read & write files of 3 bytes if voids are 4 bytes long  
>> chunks? :o) I don't understand. I want to read and write files  
>> byte-by-byte.
>>  Bye,
>> bearophile
>
> Vladimir was suggesting that void[] be the same as ubyte[] and that you  
> use void*[] if you might include a pointer. So that use case would be  
> safe.

Actually, I think Andrei's idea is better (to allow implicit casting  
arrays of non-reference types to const(ubyte)[]). It introduces an  
abstract no-pointers type, but still allows implicit casting to "might  
have pointers".

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