Re: opCast using in template struct

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On 2012-10-18, 16:54, Oleg wrote:

Hello. How to cast template struct to itself?

struct vec(string S,T=double)
{
     T[S.length] data;
     auto opCast(string K,E)()
         if( S.length == K.length &&
              is( T : E ) )
     {
         vec!(K,E) ret;
         foreach( i, ref m; ret.data )
             m = data[i];
         return ret;
     }
}

unittest
{
     alias vec!"xyz" dvec3;
     alias vec!("rbg",float) fcol3;
     auto a = dvec3([1,2,3]);
     auto b = fcol3();
     b = a; #1
     assert( b.data == [1,2,3] );
}

#1 Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (a)
of type vec!("xyz") to vec!("rbg",float)

I don't see a cast there. Do you?

What you want is to overload the assignment operator, opAssign:

struct vec(string S,T=double)
{
    T[S.length] data;
    void opAssign(string K,E)(vec!(K,E) value)
        if( S.length == K.length &&
             is( E : T ) )
    {
        foreach( i, ref m; value.data )
            data[i] = m;
    }
}

unittest
{
    alias vec!"xyz" dvec3;
    alias vec!("rbg",float) fcol3;
    auto a = dvec3([1,2,3]);
    auto b = fcol3();
    b = a; #1
    assert( b.data == [1,2,3] );
}

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Simen