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From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: Dummy
Date: 2000/02/03
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> 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
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Cultural questions: isn't it a redhibitory source of slowndowns ?! Is there
a mean to make such type checking at compile time in Java ?...

> and will fail if the cast is not valid.


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