Obtaining an address given a (run time) variable name

[DLearner]

On Monday, 20 January 2025 at 19:54:19 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
[...]
> Also, there's really no reason to be doing anything with char[] 
> instead of string unless you're specifically planning on 
> mutating the elements in your string, and casting from a string 
> literal to a char[] is almost never a good idea, because it 
> means that you could end up mutating the elements, which would 
> violate the type system guarantees - since immutable values are 
> never supposed to be mutated, and the compiler will potentially 
> make the assumption that an immutable value was not mutated 
> (string is an alias for immutable(char)[], and string literals 
> are strings). If you _do_ need to mutate the string for some 
> reason, then use dup to get a mutable copy rather than casting 
> the literal, e.g.
>
>     char[] wkVarName = "IntVar3".dup;
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Probably I misunderstand, but using -betterC:

```
extern (C) void main() {

    char[] Name;

    Name = "InitName".dup;
//   Name = cast(char[])("InitName");

}
```
fails to compile, but
```
extern (C) void main() {

    char[] Name;

//   Name = "InitName".dup;
    Name = cast(char[])("InitName");

}
```
compiles.