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

[Nick Treleaven]

On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 12:46:53 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> 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.

Looks like an abstraction got added:
https://dlang.org/phobos-prerelease/std_conv.html#bitCast
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/10651