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In message <3114137D.CFC@suphys.physics.su.oz.au> - John Max Skaller <maxtal@su
phys.physics.su.oz.au> writes:
:>
:>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.
:>
But dynamic casts are almost required to do anything.

I always thought the following was interesting:

template <class T, class S> T cast_d( S s) { return dynamic_cast<T>s; }

and the expression:

cast_d<T>(s)

Casts could almost be implemented without being part of the language.

Ken Walter

* All the above is hearsay and the opinion of nobody in particular


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