casting from variant

Philippe Sigaud philippe.sigaud at gmail.com
Sun Aug 5 11:04:28 PDT 2012


On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 6:34 PM, cal <callumenator at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Variant j;
>> j = 1.0; // make it a double
>> auto x = cast(float)(j.get!(double)()); // fine
>>
>> auto y = cast(float)x; // fine
>
>
> Ah thanks!, I didn't even think of that.

Btw, std.variant.Variant also offers a `.coerce` method:

auto x = j.coerce!float; // fine

No need of parenthesis on this one.

See also `.convertsTo`

http://dlang.org/phobos/std_variant.html#convertsTo


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