Daniel Keep wrote:
Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
Daniel Keep wrote:
...
We could probably write another template called reinterpret!T or
recast!T or something that explicitly takes a collection of bits and
reinterprets them as another type (ie: the *cast(int*)&pi case).
Wouldn't this by necessity have to be a built-in feature of the language?
Why would it?
ref T recast(T,U)(ref U v) if( T.sizeof <= U.sizeof )
{
return *cast(T*)&v;
}
Or something similar should be possible.
Ah, I misunderstood your "lock cast(T) away in a box and electrocute the
lid" comment to mean that the current cast(T) should be entirely removed
from the language. (Which is something I personally wouldn't be opposed to.)
-Lars
