Return ASCII value as uint

[Stewart Gordon]

"John Ohno" <john.ohno at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f1q9n0$1bd$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> A good general template function (will work for anything that can be 
> explicity casted to uint, including chars, doubles, and pointers):
>
> uint toUint!(T)(T c) {
>        return (cast(uint)c);
> }

Is there really any point using this when you can just cast when you need 
to?  OK, so it saves two characters where it's used....

Stewart.