Boy, std.bitmanip.bigEndianToNative is annoying to use

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 07:21:40PM +0000, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> Isn't the problem that you're trying to convert to a ushort, and a
> ushort is _2_ bytes, not 4? If you sliced it correctly, it would
> compile. For instance, this code compiles just fine for me with dmd
> master:
> 
> void main()
> {
>     import std.bitmanip;
>     auto buf = new ubyte[](32);
>     auto result = bigEndianToNative!ushort(buf[0 .. 2]);
> }
> 
> But if I change it to buf[0 .. 4], then it fails to compile. So, the
> fact that bigEndianToNative is taking a static array is actually
> catching a bug for you.
[...]

	face.palm();
	head.hang!inShame();
	self.crawlBackTo(hole);


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