safer casts - take II

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BCS Wrote:

> As far as I'm concerned it's still an open question if the dynamic_cast or 
> force_cast (by whatever name) will be used more often. So I don't see how 
> you can call it legacy.

Legaciness has nothing to do with frequency of use. I believe, legacy code is used more often, in fact, you're right here. Windows ANSI API is a good example. Total commander... :) Windows itself has workarounds for bugs in MS Office...