this() immutable

[Dicebot]

On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 20:09:51 UTC, Daniel Davidson 
wrote:
> You and dicebot surely disagree on this practice as he sees no 
> real reason to ever circumvent the type system.

There are some cases were you have no other options because of 
language design limitations but it is something that should be 
done only by experienced D developers who clearly understand the 
impact upon the generated machine code and hidden behind the 
library functions. Not a casual casts in user code by any means.