First Draft: cast(ref T)... as shorthand for *cast(T*)&...

[Dukc]

On Saturday, 18 January 2025 at 07:31:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Proposed by Manu https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/20644
>
> PR: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/20728

I agree with Dennis in the GitHub thread. Reinterpret casts are 
pretty extreme hacks. `*cast(T*) &` is a good syntax for this one 
because it clearly shows how the hack works and is so ugly that 
we don't feel tempted to use it when it's not needed. This is no 
place for syntactic sugar IMO.

If anything, we want a library helper function like Paul 
suggested, but I'm slightly reserved even about that. When doing 
reinterpret casts, it's extremely important to understand exactly 
how the cast works. Any abstraction over that always tends to 
more or less hide it.