On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 14:16:50 UTC, user1234 wrote:
The third case is just like `cast(int) 1.1` it's not _at programmer request_ from my point of view
If the programmer explicitly writes a `to!int` or the `cast(int)`, then it's pretty clearly at their request. And it's unambiguous what they are asking for.
But if the input to the conversion is a string, it's important that the conversion fail unless the string is an unambiguous representation of the intended destination type. Otherwise, there is more than one data conversion going on, and one of them is being hidden from the programmer.
