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From: "Duga Chernobyl" <duga_c3@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: which of these 3 casts would you prefer?
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Dnia 26-08-2011 o 14:40:27 A <a@a.a> napisa=C5=82(a):

> I do not understand though reluctance to use C style casts.
>
> They can cast to reinterpret_cast but they also try out the weaker cas=
t
> before. It is just automatic way to do what you would do manually - fi=
rst
> try const_cast, then static_cast and finally reinterpret_cast... yes, =
it  =

> can
> use reinterpret_cast but you would have to use it anyway in a particul=
ar
> case where you really need it.
>
> So what's wrong with little automation, providing that you know what y=
ou  =

> are
> doing with casts?
>
>

Sometimes you are tired and you don't want to check, if something is goo=
d  =

or bad. For me compiler is the best friend (in programming ;-)) and alwa=
ys  =

set this settings:

Try search all convertions with c++ style and all with c style. What, do=
  =

you think, is easier to find all of them?

-Wall -Wextra -pedantic -g -pg

It is not little automation, but great help ;-)

if you make a mistake f.e

if (a =3D 1) gcc will you ask, if really means it. If you are programmer=
,  =

the common sense makes you to be open for all suggestions of compiler.
Many people thinks, that computer is evil, but computer makes exactly wh=
at  =

we said (but not very often what we want ;-))