Minor extension to cast syntax

[Janice Caron]

On 10/31/07, Gregor Richards <Richards at codu.org> wrote:
> The current syntax is more similar to
> calling a templated cast function:
>
> cast(int)(foo)
> cast!(int)(foo)
>
> That is, cast is a function with a template parameter of the type you're
> casting it to. This isn't how it's implemented at all of course, but the
> syntax is reminiscent of that, and I think that's the better analogy.

Indeed. And in D2, we've now also got

to!(int)(foo)

which follows the same pattern