Does D have object wrappers for primitives?

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 07/29/2016 01:25 PM, Cauterite wrote:
> On Friday, 29 July 2016 at 20:13:34 UTC, stunaep wrote:
>> I have some java code I need to convert and at one point it uses an
>> Object[] array to store various ints, longs, and strings. Java has
>> built in Integer and Long classes that wrap the primitives in an
>> object and strings are already objects.
>
> No, but with a template you could easily make your own:
>
> class Boxed(T) {
>     T _v;
>     alias _v this;
>     this(in T v) immutable {_v = v;};
> };
>
> auto i = new Boxed!int(6);

I was going to suggest Algebraic because it allows arrays of mixed 
primitive types (wrapped in Algebraic):

   https://dlang.org/phobos/std_variant.html#.Algebraic

Ali