On Friday, 15 March 2024 at 20:36:56 UTC, rkompass wrote:
I'm quite new to D yet. But I have some acquaintance with
Python.
Therefore, together with templates the discovery of the Variant
type was inspiring me to the following:
I wanted to explore if it's possible to do sort of
type-agnostic programming with D. This could perhaps enable a
simpler translation of Python code to D.
Trying with a `Variant[Variant] dct;` dictionary I observed
that even simple assignment of key:value pairs was not possible
as the different types are not automatically cast to a Variant.
You're not the first one. There's no technical reason for the
restriction. It's simply a matter of being opposed by those who
make these decisions on the basis that it's the wrong way to
program or something like that. Here is a recent thread:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/ikwphfwevgnsxmdfq...@forum.dlang.org
