Template return values?

[Era Scarecrow]

On Wednesday, 5 December 2012 at 19:32:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> Yes, but that inevitably forces you to check the type in order 
> to handle it correctly, which means that implicit conversion 
> just doesn't work. In order for implicit conversion to work, 
> you have to be able to assume that you're dealing with a 
> particular type, and if you can do that, why are you using a 
> Variant in the first place? Just use a common type.

  I know for my own project a common type isn't possible (It's a 
block of raw memory most of the time), but i do know at certain 
points if it's one type or another just because of where it's at. 
In order to handle all the types it ends up either being a 
pointer (union for all) or use long and double and string, but 
you I have to call them manually (geti, gets, getf).

  Also implicit conversion only makes sense if it's a type that 
can be converted to. Any user type can't be converted without 
alias this or classes/interfaces.