Article series about patterns & idioms in D

[Walter Bright]

On 7/12/2013 2:42 AM, 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.

"alias this" is used for implicit casting. BTW, it's implicit. There's an 'i' there!

> I did not talk about builtin types.

Ok - but I think it would be clearer if the statement added "for user defined 
types".