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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Dummy
Date: 2000/02/03
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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.