Embedded Containers

[A Guy With a Question]

On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 at 22:21:51 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 05, 2017 22:09:12 A Guy With a Question 
> via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Is there actually a difference between the c style cast and
>> cast(type)? Other than verbosity...
>
> They're not the same. D's cast is not split up like C++'s casts 
> are, but it's not exactly the same as C's cast either - e.g. 
> like C++'s dynamic_cast, if a class to class conversion fails, 
> you get null, which C's cast doesn't do. Also, I think that D's 
> cast is pickier about what it will let you do, whereas C's cast 
> is more likely to want to smash something into something else 
> if you ask it even if it doesn't make sense. And of course, D's 
> cast understands D stuff that doesn't even exist in C (like 
> delegates). I don't know exactly what all of the differences 
> are though.
>
> Regardless, the reason for the verbosity is so that you can 
> easily grep for casts in your code.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

That's the best reason for verbosity I've heard.