Rant: Date and Time fall short of simplicity in D

[Timon Gehr]

On 03/29/2013 03:20 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 03/29/2013 03:03 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> ...
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>> 3. I HATE "safe" cast conversions.  If you want to make a conversion,
>> use a method/property.  I don't even know why D allows overloading
>> casting.  Casts are way too blunt for this.
>> ...
>
> The only conceivable reason is opCast!bool, eg. for use in if conditions.

(In case this is not clear, a conversion method cannot really do the job 
satisfactorily because of the if(auto x = foo()) construct.)