std.typecons.Ref(T).opImplicitCastTo()

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, March 30, 2012 16:27:44 simendsjo wrote:
> Is opImplicitCastTo a planned feature?
> It's only used in this type as I can see, and it doesn't add implicit
> casting.

It's been discussed, but I don't think that it's ever been agreed upon. In 
theory, alias this is meant to deal with implicit casts. I don't know whay 
anything in Phobos would have such a function. And I don't know what the point 
of std.typecons.Ref really is. It's undocumented (and clearly is _intended_ to 
be undocumented given what the comment is started with). I suspect that it's 
an old idea that just hasn't been cleaned out. If you'll notice, it also has 
opDot, which is being removed from the language.

- Jonathan M Davis