Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:51:15 +0100 | From | Phillip Lougher <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove some usesless casts |
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Jörn Engel wrote:
> Your definition of _unnecessary_ casts may differ from mine. > Basically, every cast is unnecessary, except for maybe one or two - if > that many. >
Well we agree to differ then. In my experience casts are sometimes necessary, and are often less clumsy than the alternatives (such as unions). This is probably a generational thing, the fashion today is to make languages much more strongly typechecked than before.
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