cast overly permissive with extern(C++ ) classes; should cast through `void*`

[Timothee Cour]

> Like assumeUnique?
https://dlang.org/library/std/exception/assume_unique.html

what do you mean? u mean adding "unique" to the DSL list ? maybe!


* for cast on extern C++ classes, why not use the same logic as what
C++ uses for dynamic_cast? (simplified because we don't support
multople inheritance)

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Seb via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 21:34:07 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
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>> On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 21:13:50 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
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>> Actually how about introducing a library solution for explicit casting:
>> * works with UFCS chains (unlike cast)
>> * DSL is very intuitive, readable and extensible
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>> [...]
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> Like assumeUnique?
>
> https://dlang.org/library/std/exception/assume_unique.html