BigInt bool assign

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/24/11 9:34 AM, Derek wrote:
> Yes, I agree that this is a potential source of bugs. So what we need is
> something more explicit.
>
> double foo() { return 1.5; }
> void main() {
> int x = cast(double:int)foo();
> }
>
> Now the code is very clear about your intentions for it, and if foo() is
> later modified to return some incompatible datatype, the compile can
> alert the coder.

auto explicitCast(From, To)(From value)
{
   return cast(To) value;
}

> And to be consistent, we need to have syntax that allows a coder to
> explicitly tell the compiler to do a re-interpretation cast.

auto reinterpretCast(From, To)(From value)
if (...)
{
   return cast(To) value;
}

No need for more syntax.


Andrei