Casting by assigning to the right ...

[Manfred Nowak]

On Tuesday, 14 April 2020 at 14:50:29 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> You can avoid the need to look up the type by using `typeof`:
>
> i = cast(typeof(i)) s;

Yes. But it is unnecessary bloat of about 15 chars. I would 
rather annotate my knowledge of implicit-cast-assigning by 
writing:
   `i:= s;'