On Friday, September 21, 2012 13:18:01 monarch_dodra wrote: > Related, could "toChar" be considered for inclusion? I think it > would be a convenient tool for validation.
I certainly would be against adding it. I think that it's a relatively uncommon use case and considering how easy it is to just write the function yourself, the functionality gain is minimal. I just don't think that it carries it's weight as far as the standard library goes. But I don't know how others like Andrei would feel. > That said, if we go that way, we might as well just have a more > generic safeCast in std.conv or something: You're basically asking for a version of std.conv.to which uses assertions instead of exceptions. - Jonathan M Davis
