Cast class reference to pointer of another class?

[Paul Backus]

On Thursday, 10 June 2021 at 21:25:35 UTC, JN wrote:
> I have to disagree. I don't see a good reason for this behavior 
> and it's just one more thing to trip people. I think it'd be 
> better if such thing was done explicit, something like:
>
> ```d
> Bar b = new Bar();
> Foo* f2 = cast(Foo*)b.ptr;
> ```

Isn't having to write out `cast(Foo*)` already pretty explicit?