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- From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: static_cast
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 20:34:48 GMT
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- Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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- In article <314c3f47.1349350@nntp.ix.netcom.com> jdmorris@ix.netcom.com (Jason D. Morris) writes:
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- > 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.
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- 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.
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- Matt Austern
- SGI: MTI Compilers Group
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