On Saturday, 7 February 2015 at 20:53:48 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Saturday, 7 February 2015 at 19:38:10 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Saturday, 7 February 2015 at 05:27:39 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/6/15 8:28 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
Do you know if D might support that later or if there's a
reason for not
supporting it?
It's deliberate following the C++ experience. -- Andrei
Hasn't there been a debate about a hypothetical
`opImplicitCast()`? The default would still be off, but you
can opt-in by defining said method.
`alias this` is pretty much `opImplicitCast`, but it currently
has a few holes, such as
http://forum.dlang.org/post/xcnwuneclebuyqcjb...@forum.dlang.org.
It's not always appropriate in every situation though, as you
get full-on subtyping along with implicit conversion.
No, `alias this` convert from the type it is declared in to
another type. `opImplicitCast` would be declared in the
destination type.
