Possible Duplicate: Casting vs using the ‘as’ keyword in the CLR I recently learned about a different way to cast. Rather than using SomeClass someObject = (SomeClass) obj; one can use this sy...

Mar 15, 2011 · Casting can be used to clearly state that you are calling a child method and not a parent method. So in this case it's always a downcast or more correctly, a narrowing conversion.

Jun 24, 2011 · is there a possibility that casting a double created via Math.round() will still result in a truncated down number No, round() will always round your double to the correct value, and then, it …

2 Your problem is not the lack of "dynamic casting". Casting Integer to Double isn't possible at all. You seem to want to give Java an object of one type, a field of a possibly incompatible type, and have it …

Sep 25, 2008 · Direct Casting Types don't have to be strictly related. It comes in all types of flavors. Custom implicit/explicit casting: Usually a new object is created. Value Type Implicit: Copy without …

Jun 23, 2013 · There are rules about casting pointers, a number of which are in clause 6.3.2.3 of the C 2011 standard. Among other things, pointers to objects may be cast to other pointers to objects and, …

Aug 26, 2008 · Static cast is also used to cast pointers to related types, for example casting void* to the appropriate type. dynamic_cast Dynamic cast is used to convert pointers and references at run-time, …

May 25, 2009 · Do you understand the concept of casting? Casting is the process of type conversion, which is in Java very common because its a statically typed language. Some examples: Cast the …

Nov 24, 2018 · The superficial answer to the question "why?" is that these simply are the rules of as expressions in Rust. Quoting from the Nomicon: Casting is not transitive, that is, even if e as U1 as …

May 28, 2017 · How do I cast an int to an enum in C++? For example: enum Test { A, B }; int a = 1; How do I convert a to type Test::A?