Mar 15, 2011 · Casting can be used to clearly state that you are calling a child method and not a parent method. So in this case it's always a downcast or more correctly, a narrowing conversion.

Possible Duplicate: Casting vs using the ‘as’ keyword in the CLR I recently learned about a different way to cast. Rather than using SomeClass someObject = (SomeClass) obj; one can use this sy...

2 Your problem is not the lack of "dynamic casting". Casting Integer to Double isn't possible at all. You seem to want to give Java an object of one type, a field of a possibly incompatible type, and have it …

Jun 24, 2011 · is there a possibility that casting a double created via Math.round() will still result in a truncated down number No, round() will always round your double to the correct value, and then, it …

Jun 23, 2013 · There are rules about casting pointers, a number of which are in clause 6.3.2.3 of the C 2011 standard. Among other things, pointers to objects may be cast to other pointers to objects and, …

Feb 5, 2025 · Why Use [PSObject] Type Casting Generally, do NOT use [psobject] casts: In most cases, it is at best an unnecessary, virtual no-op and at worst results in unexpected behavior. [psobject] is a …

Jan 4, 2023 · 23 str(x) returns a new str object, independent of the original int. It's only an example of "casting" in a very loose sense (and one I don't think is useful, at least in the context of Python code). …

Sep 25, 2008 · Direct Casting Types don't have to be strictly related. It comes in all types of flavors. Custom implicit/explicit casting: Usually a new object is created. Value Type Implicit: Copy without …

Mar 13, 2011 · Casting in Java isn't magic, it's you telling the compiler that an Object of type A is actually of more specific type B, and thus gaining access to all the methods on B that you wouldn't have had …

May 28, 2017 · How do I cast an int to an enum in C++? For example: enum Test { A, B }; int a = 1; How do I convert a to type Test::A?