Re: static_cast

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From: Matt Austern
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 20:34

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In article <314c3f47.1349350@nntp.ix.netcom.com> jdmorris@ix.netcom.com (Jason D. Morris) writes:

> Aren't the old C style casts and C++ functional style casts depricated
> under the draft standard?

No.  It's true that new-style casts (static_cast, dynamic_cast,
reinterpret_cast and const_cast) are almost always a better solution,
but old-style casts have not been deprecated.

If a feature has been deprecated, that basically means that users are
warned to stop using that feature: there is no guarantee that it will
continue to be supported.  The standardization committee chose not to
do anything so drastic in the case of casts.
-- 
Matt Austern
SGI: MTI Compilers Group
austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com


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Subject: Re: static_cast
Date: 18 Mar 1996 20:34:48 GMT
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