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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Dummy
Date: 2000/02/03
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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.