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- From: John Max Skaller <maxtal@suphys.physics.su.oz.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Observations on templates
- Date: 05 Feb 1996 09:25:57 PST
- Organization: MAXTAL
- Approved: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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- Originator: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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- 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.
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