Casting by assigning to the right ...

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 4/14/20 1:56 AM, Manfred Nowak wrote:
> According to the logged changes ( 
> https://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html) a thought on this was 
> published in 2008/03 for D2.012: `opImplicitCast', but not implemented 
> since.

The feature was implemented in a way, it's called alias this:

struct S
{
   int i;
   alias i this;
}

auto s = S(5);

int i = s;

assert(i == 5);

Note that at this time, only one alias this is allowed per structure.

-Steve