On Friday, 24 August 2012 at 05:14:39 UTC, F i L wrote:
To start, let's look at: cast(T) vs to!T(t)
In D, we have one way to use template function, and then we
have special keyword syntax which doesn't follow the same
syntactical rules. Here, cast looks like the 'scope()' or
'debug' statement, which should be followed by a body of code,
but it works like a function which takes in the following
argument and returns the result. Setting aside the "func!()()"
syntax for a moment, what cast should look like in D is:
int i = cast!int(myLong);
I agree that cast!int(myLong) looks better and more consistent
than cast(int)myLong. But I think your proposed syntax
improvement fails when you're casting to const or immutable:
cast(const)myArray --> cast!const(myArray)
Then it looks like we're passing a keyword as a template argument.
