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Function `dmd.target.Target.paintAsType`

Encode the given expression, which is assumed to be an rvalue literal as another type for use in CTFE. This corresponds roughly to the idiom *cast(T*)&e.


						
				static extern(C++) Expression paintAsType
				(
				

				  Expression e,
				

				  Type type
				

				);

Parameters

Name	Description
e	literal constant expression
type	target type of the result

Returns

resulting Expression re-evaluated as type

Authors

Walter Bright

License

Boost License 1.0