A case for opImplicitCast: making string search work better

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Consider this type:

struct StringPosition {
  size_t pos;
  void opImplicitCast(out size_t sz) {
    sz = pos;
  }
  void opImplicitCast(out bool b) {
    b = pos != -1;
  }
}

Wouldn't that effectively sidestep most problems people have with find returning -1?

Or am I missing something?

Of course, this would require a way to resolve ambiguities, i.e. functions/statements with preferences - for instance, if() would "prefer" bool over int. I don't know if this is possible.