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In article <4fa6d0$115g@news.gate.net>, Ken Walter <solution@gate.net> wrote:
>template <class T, class S> T cast_d( S s) { return dynamic_cast<T>s; }

>Casts could almost be implemented without being part of the language.
>
They can. But it's too much work for the programmer to do it. I've used
a simulation of a dynamic_cast when I didn't have a compiler that supports
them. The problem with such a simulation is that you have to provide
most of the information dynamic_cast uses by yourself (for the second time), 
even though you have already provided the compiler with the same
information in the class declaration. Or you can use macro hackery
to do that for you, but that's ugly.
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   Esa Pulkkinen                        | C++ programmers do it virtually
   E-Mail:  esap@cs.tut.fi              | everywhere with a class, resulting
   WWW   :  http://www.cs.tut.fi/~esap/ | in multiple inheritance.
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