I would like to be able to have helper methods to manipulate arrays in a generic manner.

We already have many System.Array methods available, but for certain things we may need to be able to figure out what the specific element type of a given array is.

Currently we CAN get the element type by getting an element of the array and checking ITS type, but that requires the array to have a non-zero length AND a non-null element, which is not ideal and takes extra externs to do checks for.