• Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= (2/2) Mar 22 Why doesn't string implicitly convert to immutable(ubyte)[] in
• Jonathan M Davis (9/11) Mar 22 Why would it? They're different types. Their elements happen to have the

Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:

Why doesn't string implicitly convert to immutable(ubyte)[] in 
 safe mode?

Jonathan M Davis <newsgroup.d jmdavisprog.com> writes:

On Saturday, March 23, 2024 12:11:15 AM MDT Per Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:
 Why doesn't string implicitly convert to immutable(ubyte)[] in
  safe mode?

Why would it? They're different types. Their elements happen to have the
same size, but that doesn't mean that they're used for the same thing at
all. And having them be implicitly convertible could cause serious problems
with overloading.

If you want to do that conversion without a cast, then you can just use
std.string.representation (which will do the cast internally).

- Jonathan M Davis