Help translating C/C++ snippet to D

[Dustin]

On Tuesday, 3 July 2012 at 10:23:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 7/3/2012 11:34 AM, Dustin wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to follow along with a C++ tutorial and translate 
>> it to D but
>> I don't know C/C++ well enough to understand this #Define 
>> statement:
>>
>> #define ARRAY_COUNT( array ) (sizeof( array ) / (sizeof( 
>> array[0] ) *
>> (sizeof( array ) != sizeof(void*) || sizeof( array[0] ) <= 
>> sizeof(void*))))
>>
>> Can anyone help me understand this and translate it to a D 
>> function?
>> Thanks for your time.
>
> There is no reason to translate this to D. C++ doesn't keep 
> track of array lengths out of the box, so programmers either 
> have to do it themselves or implement some hackery like this 
> macro to figure it out. In D, none of that is necessary.
>
> myArray.length
>
> Same thing.

Ok cool that's why I like D much more than C++, it gets rid of a 
lot of ambiguity. Thanks for the info.