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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Dummy
Date: 2000/02/03
Date: 2000-02-03T14:08:50+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <t7d7qe2xab.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3898C380.BC01EC03@earthlink.net

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.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-02-03  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-02  0:00 Dummy Simic_10111
     [not found] ` <3898C380.BC01EC03@earthlink.net>
2000-02-03  0:00   ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2000-02-03  0:00     ` Dummy Tucker Taft
2000-02-04  0:00       ` Dummy Robert A Duff
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
2000-02-03  0:00     ` Dummy Gautier
2000-02-03  0:00       ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-03  0:00     ` Dummy Larry Kilgallen
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 Gautier
2000-01-11  0:00 ` Dummy Ehud Lamm
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