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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