ndslice: convert a sliced object to T[]

[data pulverizer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 08:53:22 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 08:25:35 UTC, data pulverizer 
> wrote:
>> I guess foreach would not copy the elements? for example:
>>
>> foreach(el; slice.byElement)
>> 		x ~= el;
>>
>> But it feels wrong to be doing work pulling elements that 
>> already exists by using foreach. I feel as if I am missing 
>> something obvious but can't get it.
>
> The question is: why you need to put them inside an array? If 
> you can, leave them in the lazy range and work on it.

I need this to work with external libraries that only deal with 
one dimensional arrays.