Article series about patterns & idioms in D

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Friday, 12 July 2013 at 09:42:28 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>>
>> "D strives to prevent implict conversion between user defined 
>> types at
>> all costs."
>>
>> I don't think this is true. Implicit conversions are very 
>> useful. What D
>> prevents are implicit conversions that can result in data 
>> loss, such as
>> integer truncation.
>>
>
> I did talk about implict conversions between user defined 
> types. D does not have implict construction, or implict casting 
> like C++ does. I did not talk about builtin types.

What's about alias this?