D - dynamic_cast only?

[Steve Teale]

I'll try again on this.

My reading of the current documentation on casts leaves me with the 
impression that D now has only the equivalent of the C++ dynamic_cast.

This seems unreasonably restrictive given that C++ has traditional C-
style cast, dynamic_cast, static_cast, and reinterpret_cast - or maybe 
it's changed now?

If D is a system programming language should I not be able to tell the 
compiler that a given set of bits represents what I say it is, and suffer 
the consequences if I get things wrong?

Steve