From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Dummy
Date: 2000/02/03
Date: 2000-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2000Feb3.103443.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: t7d7qe2xab.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com
In article <t7d7qe2xab.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com>, Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> writes:
> Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> writes:
>> Java is more Object Oriented than Ada is, but less type safe.
>> (Those casts are a really bad idea that is carried forwards from C.)
>
> Java casts are always perfectly safe. Casts between object types are
> akin to C++'s dynamic_cast<T>, in that they are type-checked at runtime
> and will fail if the cast is not valid.
To me "perfectly safe" does not allow "fail at runtime".
Presumably "Spark for Java" would disallow this.
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2000-02-02 0:00 Dummy Simic_10111
[not found] ` <3898C380.BC01EC03@earthlink.net>
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Tucker Taft
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Dummy Florian Weimer
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Dummy Robert A Duff
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Dummy Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Dummy Geoff Bull
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Dummy Florian Weimer
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Dummy Robert A Duff
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Gautier
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <389c50a6.14707859@news.flash.net>
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Dummy Marin D. Condic
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2000-01-11 0:00 Dummy Simic_10111
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Dummy Ehud Lamm
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Dummy Gautier
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