From: Elias Athanasopoulos <elathan@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T03:31:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby - C++ extension

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:21:54AM +0900, Paul Brannan wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:44:39PM +0900, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> > As far as C++ Type Casting is concerned I am thinking of creating
> > to_xxx methods. I.e.
> > 
> > 	foo = (Foo *) Bar->dump();
> 
> This is not C++ type casting; this is a C-style cast.  In C++, you
> generally want to avoid C-style casts because C-style casts are far too
> powerful (they let you lie to the compiler far too easily).  Please
> consider using static_cast<> and dynamic_cast<> whenever possible.

Thanks for all the replies in my question. I was to busy to answer.
My apologies for the delay.

Regards,
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