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2007-March-22

C++ Downcasting Evils

Filed under: Programming, Fun

You never know what words of “wisdom” might be archived somewhere in the world. I recently found some old discussion about type information in C++ that made me laugh. I guess it made someone else laugh too, because they saved it for posterity.

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  1. Forgive me, but every time that I read the word “widget” I get the same sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that I had when I was desperately trying to figure out how to retrieve data “X” from this mysterious “widget” thingy that some “expert” introduced to me.

    ;-)

    Actually, for the first time in over five years I just this spring encountered a situation where inheritance MAY be the easy way to do something… I have not given up on doing it another way you understand.

    Comment by Walter Moore — 2007-March-30 @ 02:15

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