From kde-core-devel  Tue Nov 02 10:08:34 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:08:34 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KPresenter
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94153732903467

Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, Dirk A. Mueller wrote:
> >Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie@troll.no> wrote:
> >
> >> KPresenter uses dynamic_casts. SO does it mean I have to switch all
> >> back to C-casts now (would be lots of work :-(( )
> >
> >errm, if const_casts would work, why don't use them? they're faster! :)
> 
> Who says const_casts would work.
> 
> I mean, you can always live without C++ casts, because
> 
> dynamic_cast<AClass>( aPtr )->doSomething()
> 
> can be replaced by
> 
> ( (AClass*)aPtr )->soSomething().
> 
> Itīs just that the first (C++) solution is the better one.
> 
Hmm, but dynamic_cast will return 0 while (AClass*) will just
do _something_. :)

Greetings, Stephan

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