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Article #3235Re: Observations on templates
From: John Max Skaller
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 17:25
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 17:25
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Eugene Radchenko wrote:
> Why don't use, for instance, cast_d instead od
> dynamic_cast (ugh).
This is quite deliberate. Bjarne dislikes casts. So do I.
He didn't invent new style casts (and RTTI) for your convenience,
he invented them to make sure no one else did. Long names were deliberately
chosen to discourage use of casts.
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