On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:57:21PM +0200, Peter Bortas wrote:
> Let's unstick it wherever we can then. "type cast" tells us what is
> happening. 

does it really?
a type cast changes the type, [type] only asserts the type.
there is no change happening. i do not think that type cast is any more
correct than soft cast. it may be that the term cast is a bad choice.
how about "type assert"?

http://crasseux.com/books/ctutorial/The-cast-operator.html
http://www.janeg.ca/scjp/oper/cast.html

greetings, martin.
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