No, I agree. The casts should be called assert_dynamic_cast, etc. polymorphic_downcast is differ because it turns into a static_cast in release builds. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 14, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Thorsten Ottosen <thorsten.ottosen@dezide.com
wrote:
David Abrahams skrev:
on Tue Nov 11 2008, Thorsten Ottosen <thorsten.ottosen-AT- dezide.com> wrote:
Not to me. In what sense is this proposed cast "down?" Well, as you say, its narrowing.
The naming applied to polymorphic_cast and polymorphic_downcast is not perfect either, since both can be used to "casting down". That's like saying a knife is badly named because it can be used for "slicing carrots."
Do you disagree with my proposal that we should have some consistent way of naming a cast that does a debug check, but otherwise is unchecked?
I suggested
boost::numeric_debug_cast boost::polymorphic_debug_cast boost::any_debug_cast
but perhaps
boost::numeric_static_cast boost::polymorphic_static_cast boost::any_static_cast
which reads nice, but the names are getting awfully long.
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