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SubjectRe: [PATCH] remove some usesless casts
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).

Pekka
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