Casting by assigning to the right ...

[Paul Backus]

On Tuesday, 14 April 2020 at 05:56:39 UTC, Manfred Nowak wrote:
> ```
> i= cast( int)  s;
> ```
>
> I do not like to always correctly examine the type of the 
> variable I am assigning to ( `i' in this case) for using that 
> type in the `cast()' and came up with the idea to no more 
> assign to the left but to the right:

You can avoid the need to look up the type by using `typeof`:

i = cast(typeof(i)) s;