Re: difference between child class object and downcasting object

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.help
Subject	Re: difference between child class object and downcasting object
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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Date	2013-03-11 22:35 -0700

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On Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:31:17 -0800, Roedy Green
<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>You are giving the assurance this Dog reference actually points to a
>Dalmatian object, so get ready to use some Dalmatian-only objects on
>it. This is not a mistake.  I am not mindlessly trying to run
>Dalmatian methods on a Dog reference. It will still check just to make
>sure.
 oops should read

>You are giving the assurance this Dog reference actually points to a
>Dalmatian object, so get ready to use some Dalmatian-only METHODS on
>it. This is not a mistake.  I am not mindlessly trying to run
>Dalmatian methods on a Dog reference. It will still check just to make
>sure.
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. 
 ~ Niklaus Wirth (born: 1934-02-15 age: 79) Wirth's Law

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  Re: difference between child class object and downcasting object Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-03-07 09:53 -0800
    Re: difference between child class object and downcasting object Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-03-10 18:22 -0700
  Re: difference between child class object and downcasting object Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-09 17:31 -0800
    Re: difference between child class object and downcasting object Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-11 22:35 -0700

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