bearophile Wrote: > If I have an enum of chars, and I have a variable that contains a generic > char, I may want to convert the second to an instance of the first one, > safely (a normal cast is enough to do it unsafely). Is it a good idea to give > this purpose to to!() (this idea is currently not implemented)?
I believe this is exactly what std.conv.to should do. It should be the safest and recommended way to do conversions. I have a request in for preventing removal of qualifiers: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5307