Re: Basic question about size_t and ulong

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 09:11:00PM +0000, Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d-learn 
wrote:
[...]
> I'd almost wish D had a more lenient mode and would do automatic
> down-casting, then complain if it *would* have failed to downcast data
> at runtime.
[...]

We already have this:

        import std.conv : to;
        int x;
        long y;
        y = x.to!long;  // equivalent to straight assignment / cast
        x = y.to!int;   // throws if out of range for int


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