Implicit conversions for AA keys

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/23/12 2:28 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 03/23/2012 08:06 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> Casting is very different from to, and useless for your purposes. You
>> must use to.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> druntime mustn't depend on Phobos, and I don't see why it is necessary.
> What kind of functionality do you want to provide that depends on
> std.conv.to ?

Casting from char[] to string is not what you want, and .idup is 
specific to arrays. There must be one coherent method of "truely" 
converting across types, and std.conv.to is the closest I can think of.

Andrei