built-in array ptrEnd

[monarch_dodra]

On Monday, 17 September 2012 at 17:10:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 9/17/12 12:34 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
>
> To be blunt, I think this is a terrible idea for a convenience 
> function. Note that I'm only allowing myself to say this 
> because monarch_dodra has clearly made other excellent 
> contributions so I assume his ideas can take a bit of a 
> destruction.
>
> Normal code isn't supposed to mess with pointers and stuff, 
> particularly with pointers past the end of arrays. That's rare. 
> If Phobos uses .ptr with any frequency it's because it's 
> low-level code that should optimize for performance 
> compulsively.
>
>
> Andrei

I think I spent way too much time in the past weeks doing array 
arithmetic actually. Hence the proposal. It is actually true 
you'd never need this outside of low level.

No problem if you think it was a bad idea, that was the point of 
the thread, to get some hindsight from others. Thank you for the 
compliment about my contributions. It means a lot.