New ProtoFlux Node: Is Assignable From

[JackTheFoxOtter]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, there isn't a nice way to determine wether a Type is assignable from a different Type in ProtoFlux. This information can be useful in a variety of situations in which you need to analyze generic runtime types.

Describe the solution you'd like

A new ProtoFlux Node Is Assignable From that takes in two Type inputs and outputs a boolean wether type A is assignable from type B.

Describe alternatives you've considered

You can create an explicit cast and check if it was cast successful (not null), but that has readability problems, and I think conceptually a type check like this should be done before before the type is used / cast, not after it.

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[BaxterOttoman]

What if you sort of combined a cast into it too? So you have a reference and a Type as inputs and then it outputs a boolean value and the result of the cast?

[Nytra]

I think casting is a bit of a heavy operation to do if it's not needed, maybe better to just have the check without casting

[JackTheFoxOtter]

I don't think I'd like combining the two in one node. Also that would require the node to be generic, which adds complexity.

This node is for type inspection, I don't think it should do more than that.

[yoshiyoshyosh]

I've had a few cases where this would be useful--introspection without actually casting the object (because it is a heavy operation!). Would love this.