Re: Magic type return

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 13:56:29 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:

class Known
{
         void* data; // external data by c api
         int type;  // 0 for int, 1 for string, etc. ..
}

How can I implement a method like this?

Known  known;  // <-- suppose known.type == 1;
string s  = known.value(); // <-- automatic

I just know how to do this:

string s = know.value!string();

You can't. You could do

string s;
known.value(s);

where

void value(T)(ref T t);