std.conv checking if "to" will work

[Robert burner Schadek via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 09:10:03 UTC, monarch_dodra 
wrote:

> There's an open request for it, and plans to have a "bool 
> maybeTo!(OUT, WHAT)(WHAT what, ref OUT out)", but we aren't 
> quite there yet.
>
> The idea is that *once* we have that, then "to" would simply 
> become an "enforce!maybeTo".
>
> But in the meantime, no. you have to trycatch.

thanks for the quick anwser. Is anyone working on it currently?

just for completeness the bugzilla entry is: 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6840