Implicit conversion from a base/array type

[alexhairyman]

On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 21:23:07 +0000, TheFlyingFiddle wrote:

> On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 20:26:27 UTC, alexhairyman wrote:
>> Is there a way to implicitly convert *FROM* a base type? I have an
>> implicit conversion to a base type (float[2]) in a struct, but now I'd
>> like to be able to implicitly convert from a base type (in this case a
>> float[2]) to a struct.
>>
>> Is this even allowed? Is it incorrect or unsafe? I'm still pretty new
>> so there could be a major reason to not want to do this. I also did a
>> lot of searching of the site, I hope I didn't miss something major, but
>> I might have.
>>
>> example :
>>
>> struct Coord {...} // X,Y wrapper-like type, implicitly converts
>> to/from float
>>
>> void DoCoord(Coordinate c) {... do stuff...}
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>   DoCoord ([0.0f, 5.0f]); // Is it possible to set this up?
>> }
> 
> 
> D currencly has no implicit casting operator overloading. It has been
> proposed before in http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP52 but i am not sure what
> the state of that is as of now.

Hmmm, interesting