Binary data in the code?

[Bill Baxter]

BCS wrote:
> == Quote from Bill Baxter (wbaxter at gmail.com)'s article
> 
>>How does one embed binary data in code with D?
>>In C/C++ one would do something like:
>>   static const unsigned char data[] = {99,12,2,21};
>>The compiler counts the elements for you, but you still get a
>>compile-time length, so you can do sizeof(data) and you'll get
>>back 4 in the above example.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>Thanks,
>>--bb
> 
> 
> 
> IIRC, this works:
> 
> auto data = [cast(char)99,12,2,21];
> // type of data == char[4];


Ick.  Combines the lack of readability of 'auto' with the lameness of 
D's first-value array typing rule.

It's beside the point though, since that doesn't actually work.
    staticdata.d(9): Error: cannot infer type from initializer

--bb