Implicit type conversion of an argument when a function is called

[Carl Sturtivant]

On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 03:50:16 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 03:45:30 UTC, Carl Sturtivant 
> wrote:
>> If I define a struct, and I want to pass a string to a 
>> function with a parameter of type that very struct, is there 
>> any way to arrange that an implicit conversion occurs, 
>> assuming a function that maps a string to that struct type 
>> exists?
>
> Nope, you have to do it explicitly.
>
> f(data("hello"));
[...]
> I kinda wish D did have this. The mistake C++ made was having 
> the implicit conversions be the default, not having it be an 
> option. But it isn't in and as far as I know, there are no 
> plans to add it either.

Disappointing. It could be kept decoupled from constructors and 
assignment defined conversions by having an analogue of opAssign 
that's solely for argument passing.