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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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: …

Mar 13, 2011 · Casting in Java isn't magic, it's you telling the compiler that an Object of type A is actually of more specific type B, and thus gaining access to all the methods on B that you …

Dec 22, 2022 · 2 I'm trying to understand how casting between base & derived types exactly works in C++. So I wrote a small proof-of-concept program

May 28, 2016 · What is the best practice for casting between the different number types? Types float, double, int are the ones I use the most in C++. An example of the options where f is a …

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?