On 13/05/2008, terranium <spam at here.lot> wrote: > just what I wrote about http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=71725 Seriously - to!(T) is the D standard way of doing convertions that will throw an exception on failure. It is the right function for dynamic-cast-with-throw.