• bearophile (9/9) Aug 27 2013 Is it a good idea to add to std.collection.Array a method similar
• Tobias Pankrath (4/13) Aug 28 2013 It could be useful. Although I currently wouldn't have any use

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Is it a good idea to add to std.collection.Array a method similar 
to:

     T[] unsafeRelease() pure nothrow {
         return this._data._payload;
     }


It's meant to be used as an unsafe hack to call some some 
functions that require a built-in array as input.

Bye,
bearophile

"Tobias Pankrath" <tobias pankrath.net> writes:

On Wednesday, 28 August 2013 at 00:45:48 UTC, bearophile wrote:
 Is it a good idea to add to std.collection.Array a method 
 similar to:

     T[] unsafeRelease() pure nothrow {
         return this._data._payload;
     }


 It's meant to be used as an unsafe hack to call some some 
 functions that require a built-in array as input.

 Bye,
 bearophile

It could be useful. Although I currently wouldn't have any use 
cases in my projects.

It should return this._data._payload[0 .. length].