Merge pull request #197 from leandro-lucarella-sociomantic/dep-cast-a…

…rray-ulong

Add deprecation of cast T[] to ulong

deprecate.dd

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ $(SPEC_S Deprecated Features,
 
 	$(TABLE2 Deprecated Features,
 	$(THEAD Feature,                                                          Spec,  Warn,   Dep,    Error,  Gone)
+	$(TROW $(DEPLINK Cast T[] to integral type),                                      ?,     N/A,    2.060,  2.061,   )
 	$(TROW $(DEPLINK Base Class Protection),                                  2.058, N/A,    2.058,   ,  )
 	$(TROW $(DEPLINK Using length in index expressions),                      ?,     N/A,    2.041,  2.061,   )
 	$(TROW $(DEPLINK typedef),                                                2.057, N/A,    2.057,   ,  )
@@ -56,6 +57,19 @@ $(SPEC_S Deprecated Features,
 
 
 
+<h3>$(DEPNAME Cast T[] to integral type)</h3>
+	At some point in time you could do:
+---
+ulong u = cast(ulong)[1,2];
+---
+	To get the length of the array.
+<h4>Corrective Action</h4>
+	$(P Use the $(LINK2 http://dlang.org/arrays.html#array-properties, .length) property instead.)
+
+<h4>Rationale</h4>
+	$(P Using a cast to get the length of an array is just confusing.)
+
+
 
 <h3>$(DEPNAME Base Class Protection)</h3>
 	Base class protections are things like: