On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:53:56 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 3/18/12, Manu <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm finding that in this code I'm writing, casts are taking up more
space
on many lines than the actual term being assigned.
Another classic which fails to compile is:
import std.random;
ubyte c = uniform(0, 256);
In the call uniform returns a number anywhere from 0 to and including
255, which can fit perfectly in a ubyte. But I have to use a cast
(which is error-prone if I change the right interval), or use a
to!ubyte call (which is verbose). Granted for simple-purpose random
number generation a cast might be safe..
What if you don't have std.random's source, all you (the compiler) have is
the function signature?
BTW, you can use this instead of a cast:
ubyte c = uniform(0, 256) & 0xff;
-Steve
