std.v2020.algorithm etc[ WAS: Is run.d going to be expand for runtime and the phobos library?]

Mathias LANG geod24 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 03:22:52 UTC 2020


On Monday, 22 June 2020 at 21:46:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 6/22/20 12:50 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
>
>> IMHO the principled way to allow user-defined implicit 
>> conversions is...to allow user-defined implicit conversions. 
>> But iirc that's a can of worms Walter prefers not to open.
>
> What happens upon function calls is not an implicit conversion. 
> It's a forced type change.

Can you expand on this ? I've never heard of this before.


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