• Ruby The Roobster (1/1) Aug 03 2022 Any way to 'cast away' shared for an unknown type T?
• Paul Backus (10/11) Aug 03 2022 There's actually an `Unshared` template for this in `std.traits`,
• Ruby The Roobster (2/13) Aug 03 2022 Thank you. This really helped.

Ruby The Roobster <rubytheroobster yandex.com> writes:

Any way to 'cast away' shared for an unknown type T?

Paul Backus <snarwin gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 3 August 2022 at 12:50:17 UTC, Ruby The Roobster 
wrote:
 Any way to 'cast away' shared for an unknown type T?

There's actually an `Unshared` template for this in `std.traits`, 
but for some reason it's `private`, so you can't use it directly. 
Fortunately, it's only two lines:

```d
alias Unshared(T) = T;
alias Unshared(T: shared U, U) = U;
```

Once you have this, you can write `cast(Unshared!T)`.

Ruby The Roobster <rubytheroobster yandex.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 3 August 2022 at 13:00:05 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
 On Wednesday, 3 August 2022 at 12:50:17 UTC, Ruby The Roobster 
 wrote:
 Any way to 'cast away' shared for an unknown type T?

 There's actually an `Unshared` template for this in 
 `std.traits`, but for some reason it's `private`, so you can't 
 use it directly. Fortunately, it's only two lines:

 ```d
 alias Unshared(T) = T;
 alias Unshared(T: shared U, U) = U;
 ```

 Once you have this, you can write `cast(Unshared!T)`.

Thank you.  This really helped.