Setting array length without initializing/reallocating.

[Jackson22]

On Monday, 14 December 2020 at 01:36:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 December 2020 at 20:03:46 UTC, Jackson22 wrote:
>>
>> There's a reason .ptr exist, I wish people would stop 
>> pretending that using it where it is appropriate is somehow 
>> going to lead to failure when there are more successful 
>> programming languages that have zero automatic bounds checking.
>>
>
> There's no pretending here. What the OP is doing *is* dangerous.

If someone writes a wrapper around .ptr which checks. It'd be 
literally no different than the implementation in druntime.

Like I said, I wish people would stop pretending that using it 
where it is appropriate is somehow going to lead to failure. 
Maybe those people just aren't knowledgeable enough to 
understand, I don't know.