Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:36:18 +0300 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove some usesless casts |
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Phillip,
Jörn Engel wrote: > > Your definition of _unnecessary_ casts may differ from mine. > > Basically, every cast is unnecessary, except for maybe one or two - if > > that many.
On 4/20/05, Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Well we agree to differ then. In my experience casts are sometimes > necessary, and are often less clumsy than the alternatives (such as > unions). This is probably a generational thing, the fashion today is to > make languages much more strongly typechecked than before.
I think Jörn means that if you need an opaque data type, use void pointers (which are automatically cast to the proper type) and that all other casts are a design smell (except for the one or two special cases where you actually need them).
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