• terranium <spam here.lot> May 13 2008
• "Janice Caron" <caron800 googlemail.com> May 13 2008

terranium <spam here.lot> writes:

Janice Caron Wrote:

 We already have that.
 
     import std.conv;
 
     dst = to!(T)(src);
 
 so your base is already covered.

"Janice Caron" <caron800 googlemail.com> writes:

On 13/05/2008, terranium <spam here.lot> wrote:
 just what I wrote about
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=71725


Seriously - to!(T) is the D standard way of doing convertions that
will throw an exception on failure. It is the right function for
dynamic-cast-with-throw.