> 
> 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.

No, [type] changes the type, e.g. from int|string to string. A change do
occur, but it doesn't matter once the program is compiled.

/Martin Nilsson

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