std.conv checking if "to" will work

monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 11 03:20:49 PDT 2014


On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 09:33:20 UTC, Robert burner 
Schadek wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 09:10:03 UTC, monarch_dodra 
> wrote:
>
>> There's an open request for it, and plans to have a "bool 
>> maybeTo!(OUT, WHAT)(WHAT what, ref OUT out)", but we aren't 
>> quite there yet.
>>
>> The idea is that *once* we have that, then "to" would simply 
>> become an "enforce!maybeTo".
>>
>> But in the meantime, no. you have to trycatch.
>
> thanks for the quick anwser. Is anyone working on it currently?
>
> just for completeness the bugzilla entry is: 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6840

Nope, no one (AFAIK).

I think it "only" needs a bit of refactoring std.conv, but it's a 
pretty damn big module.


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