On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 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_. :)

So if you don't check anything, a dynamic_cast'ed pointer will fail the
first time after it gets dereferenced and the C-styles casted pointer
will happily continue to appear valid and will most like result in a
crash further on in the program. 

Question: Which type of fault is easier to debug?

Cheers,
Waldo