Replacement for C++ Style Implicit casts?

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 18 12:53:45 PDT 2010


On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:47:40 -0400, Mike Chaten <mchaten at gmail.com> wrote:

> In C++ it is possible to declare a class as follows
> class Foo {
> Foo(int x) { }
> }
> You can then use that constructor to implicitly convert int to Foo. E.g
> Foo x = 0; //equivalent to Foo(0)
>
> Is there a way in D to do an implicit or explicit conversion from an
> integral type to a class?

explicit cast == opCast
implicit cast == alias this

Look up those two features in the docs.

-Steve


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