On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 11:25:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Friday, September 21, 2012 13:18:01 monarch_dodra wrote:
Related, could "toChar" be considered for inclusion? I think it
would be a convenient tool for validation.
I certainly would be against adding it. I think that it's a
relatively
uncommon use case and considering how easy it is to just write
the function
yourself, the functionality gain is minimal. I just don't think
that it
carries it's weight as far as the standard library goes. But I
don't know how
others like Andrei would feel.
That said, if we go that way, we might as well just have a more
generic safeCast in std.conv or something:
You're basically asking for a version of std.conv.to which uses
assertions
instead of exceptions.
- Jonathan M Davis
I know my ideas usually get shot down, but I usually learn a LOT
from your answers, so sorry for insisting.
I did not know conv's to did cast validation. In my defense, the
doc is actually missing:
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_conv.html
I made a doc pull request so that it would appear.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/811
