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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 9:18:50 AM UTC-6, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> In C, "cast" means "explicit conversion". If you want to discuss your 
>> own language, take it up in a newsgroup devoted to that language.
>
> I like to use the phrase "explicit cast" in cases where casts are intended
> to explicitly indicate, to "anything" reading the code (compiler or human),
> that something "unusual" may be going on.
[...]

I like to use the word "cast" for that.

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