Re: How to strip struct/class invariants?

[Artem Tarasov via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 5 July 2015 at 14:44:30 UTC, John Colvin wrote:

struct A
{
    ubyte[B.sizeof] mem;
    @property ref B b()
    {
        return *cast(B*)(mem.ptr);
    }
    mixin std.typecons.Proxy!b;
}


Thanks, I followed your suggestion and effectively rolled out my 
own union implementation. Ugly but it works.

struct A
{
    ubyte[maxSizeof] _data;
    @property ref T _as(T)() inout { return *cast(T*)(_data.ptr); 
}
    alias b = _as!uint;
    alias c = _as!size_t;
    alias d = _as!double;
}