> Um, how is this worse then having tons of implicit and undocumented
> typecasts hidden throughout the code?
Implicit type casts follow strict rules. Once people start explicitly
type casting *everything* you have to assume they knew what they
were doing - and got it right.
> Dumb programmers write dumb programs. Granted. Smart programmers take
> advantage of this behavior, and only typecast when this warning comes up
> and they have looked at the situation and decided yes, the conversion is
> what they mean (or changed the types of other variables to the correct
> type).
We all know that there are those of us (you?) who can get it right
and that the majority can't be trusted. I want to stand a chance
of QA'ing that code...
Mike
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