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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: 0 or 0L for empty pointers?
From:       Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde () carewolf ! com>
Date:       2006-06-23 16:09:40
Message-ID: 200606231809.40780.kde () carewolf ! com
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On Friday 23 June 2006 17:46, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> Let me get this straight : you think dynamic_cast<> is unreliable and
> prefer C style casts instead ? This begs for the usual question :
> "what's the color of the sky on your planet ?".
>
C-style cast always work and never fail, they are unsafe _because_ they always 
work. dynamic_cast fail because they try to be safe, and sometimes can't 
figure out if it's safe or not.

I want things to work, I can take care of safety myself. Please don't confuse 
the two types of "works".

Note that I put the "I guess I am oldfashioned" as a disclaimer to say that I 
don't usually recommmend others using C-style casts. I would prefer 
static_cast<> in KDE.

`Allan
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