From kde-core-devel Tue Nov 02 10:22:09 1999 From: Reginald Stadlbauer Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:22:09 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: KPresenter X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94153939706062 On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote: >Reginald Stadlbauer wrote: >> >> On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, Dirk A. Mueller wrote: >> >Reginald Stadlbauer 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( 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_. :) I already pointed out that the way I use it (without checking the result) it doesnīt make much sense :-) Anyway, where I used it I know that the type is ok, so the problem is not that big. -- Reggie