eating inout dogfood

[Michel Fortin]

On 2011-10-14 20:05:09 +0000, "Steven Schveighoffer" 
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> said:

> I don't think the compiler will auto-convert someTemplate!(inout(V)) to 
>  e.g. someTemplate!(const(V)).  Does that work?  I know that for 
> instance,  I can't do this:
> 
> struct S(T)
> {
>     T * x;
> }
> 
> S!(int) ptr;
> S!(const(int)) cptr = ptr;
> 
> So I wouldn't expect the compiler to do the above translation either...

Perhaps you can add this to the struct:

	void this(U)(in S!U other) if (__traits(compiles, this.x = other.x))
	{
		this.x = other.x;
	}

If that works, maybe a similar approach could be used to solve the 
problem with inout: if you can construct the requested type from the 
provided one it get converted automatically at the call site.

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Michel Fortin
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