Re: [PATCH] remove some usesless casts

[Jörn Engel]

On Wed, 20 April 2005 21:51:15 +0100, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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 never claimed to replace the casts with unions. ;)

Jörn

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