std.mmfile + std.bitmanip.peek, void[] is not a forward range?

[Ben Jones]

On Thursday, 21 November 2024 at 22:09:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
>
> void[] can refer to an array of anything, and it's not at all 
> type-safe or memory-safe to access its elements. It would be 
> like implicitly treating a void* like a pointer to any specific 
> type.
>
> If you want to access anything in a void[], it must be cast to 
> something else. If you want to access the data as bytes, then 
> typically, casting to ubyte[] would be the appropriate thing to 
> do. Then you can use std.bitmanip's stuff on it to convert 
> groups of bytes to int or short or some other integral type.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Makes sense although it seems reasonable for bitmanip.peek and 
friends to work on void[] since the underlying data is assumed to 
be untyped.