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 …

That is true, but what if the only intention is to move the pointer? In that case, the casting functions for unique_ptr would not make a copy, just move (or transform) the pointer.

The C-style casts can do virtually all types of casting from normally safe casts done by static_cast<> () and dynamic_cast<> () to potentially dangerous casts like const_cast<> (), where const modifier can …

In C# can I cast a variable of type object to a variable of type T where T is defined in a Type variable?

Casting has sense only for a variable (= chunk of memory whose content can change) There are no variables whose content can change, in Python. There are only objects, that aren't contained in …

Casting is quite different, and the 'as' key word performs a conditional cast, as has been said. The 'as' key word basically says "get me a reference of this type to that object if that object is this type" while …

Casting between function pointers and regular pointers (e.g. casting a void (*)(void) to a void*). Function pointers aren't necessarily the same size as regular pointers, since on some architectures they might …

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I think I've read just about every thread on this topic and none of them are solving my problem. First of all, the database I'm working with has all date fields set to a varchar data type, which d...

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