Why isn't the array lenght property an lvalue?

[MrSmith]

On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 20:43:09 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 16:30:13 -0400, MrSmith 
> <mrsmith33 at yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 19:58:21 UTC, Jeroen Bollen wrote:
>>> On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 19:56:38 UTC, MrSmith wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 19:23:45 UTC, Jeroen Bollen wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 19:13:31 UTC, Jeroen Bollen 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> When I have myarray.length, why isn't that considered an 
>>>>>> lvalue, and as a result, why cannot I get a pointer to it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems kinda dumb, I understand it cannot be changed 
>>>>>> manually, but surely you should be able to get a 
>>>>>> const(type)* from it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Well type would be ulong, so const(ulong)*
>>>>
>>>> Array length is size_t which is uint on x86 and ulong on 
>>>> x86_64.
>>>
>>> Alright, but why can't you get a pointer to it?
>>
>> I've tried, but no luck here
>> http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/be526902ef4f
>

Cool! So, it is not a property function but actual size_t? How 
would it grow then?
> You had the elements backwards:
>
> http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/8b5067aaf9d4
>
> -Steve