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>>>> "Matt" == Matt Austern <austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com> writes:

 Matt> In article <314c3f47.1349350@nntp.ix.netcom.com>
 Matt> 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?

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

Since static_cast is not always safe, did anyone consider a set of
implicit_cast<T> template functions as part of the standard library ?

e.g:

template<typename From, typename To>
inline To
implicit_cast(From x)
{
  return x;
}

....

These functions are efficient, safe and might be the fatal blow to the
old-style cast.

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