safer casts - take II
BCS
ao at pathlink.com
Tue May 13 13:03:49 PDT 2008
Reply to terranium,
> There is only minor need for this silent cast, I believe, so 1) since
> this is rarely needed, performance penalty is acceptable,
by that augment, "there is only minor need for /down/ casts, I believe, since"
the throwing kind is even rarer than the non throwing kind. In my experience
that is the case.
(note: paraphrased to draw attention to the parallel nature of the counter
argument)
> The type switch from your example can be implemented
> in a more efficient way with a type hashtable.
>
I'm not seeing it, example please?
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