Function convertsTo

Compatibility layer for MySQLVal. These functions provide methods that TaggedAlgebraic does not provide in order to keep functionality that was available with Variant.

bool convertsTo(T) (
  ref MySQLVal val
);

Notes

The type shim should be avoided in favor of using the kind property of TaggedAlgebraic.

The get shim works differently than the TaggedAlgebraic version, as the Variant get function would provide implicit type conversions, but the TaggedAlgebraic version does not.

All shims other than type will likely remain as convenience features.

Note that peek is inferred @system because it returns a pointer to the provided value.

See the Safe Migration document for more details.