Postfix string literal alternative suggestion

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Edward Diener" <eddielee_no_spam_here at tropicsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:fokmmc$1bpe$1 at digitalmars.com...
> The string literal in D can have a postfix character of 'c', 'w', or 'd' 
> for specifying the type of the literal. This notation is in the same 
> spirit as the C++ prefix of L"..." to specify a wide character string. 
> Such syntax does not play well with templates based on a character type.
>
> I would like to suggest instead the use of a cast(type) expression for 
> string literals, perhaps something like 'string_cast(type)"some string 
> literal"' where the type would have to be char, wchar, or dchar. This says 
> to treat the literal as a particular type and would be a replacement for 
> "some string literal"c|w|d notation. The reason I think my suggestion is 
> superior is that one may have a template class or function in which one of 
> the template parameters is a character type and then one can easily 
> specify the template type using the notation suggested by me to coerce a 
> string literal to the preferred type without having to know the type of 
> the template parameter.

What?

Mind providing some example code?