digitalmars.D.learn - Checking for possibility of implicit conversions
- "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> Mar 14 2012
How do I check if a given type T can be implicitly converted to some
type S at compile-time? I'm trying to write a signature constraint for a
template function that should only be instantiated if the parameter type
can be implicitly assigned to some given type S.
struct S(T) {
T value;
void setValue(S)(S newValue)
if ( /* ???? */ )
{
value = newValue;
}
I tried __traits(compiles, value = newValue) but it seems to always
return true, and then later the compiler errors out at the actual
assignment statement. I'd like to be able to catch this at the signature
constraint instead of inside the function body.
T
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Mar 14 2012
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alex_R=F8nne_Petersen?= <xtzgzorex gmail.com> On 14-03-2012 18:07, H. S. Teoh wrote:How do I check if a given type T can be implicitly converted to some type S at compile-time? I'm trying to write a signature constraint for a template function that should only be instantiated if the parameter type can be implicitly assigned to some given type S. struct S(T) { T value; void setValue(S)(S newValue) if ( /* ???? */ ) { value = newValue; } I tried __traits(compiles, value = newValue) but it seems to always return true, and then later the compiler errors out at the actual assignment statement. I'd like to be able to catch this at the signature constraint instead of inside the function body. T
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_traits.html#isImplicitlyConvertible -- - Alex
Mar 14 2012
if(is(T : S)) http://dlang.org/expression.html#IsExpression this is form #2.
Mar 14 2012