[GSOC] regular expressions beta is here

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:46:25 -0400, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2011-08-10 17:55, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:

>> After some experience with alias this I had to conclude that it's rather
>> blunt tool, and I'd rather stay away of it.
>> Actually I like Steven's opCast suggestion, so that it works in
>> conditionals.

alias this has lots of problems, but it doesn't mean it's *design* is  
blunt, just that the implementation of it is not too good.

>
> Oh, I didn't know that it would work implicitly in conditionals. Then  
> I'm happy with opCast :)
>

http://www.d-programming-language.org/operatoroverloading.html#Cast

Note that it only works for structs (not sure if that return type is a  
struct or not...)

-Steve