Re: [chuck-users] Mixed Object Lists and Hierarchy

2009/12/12 mike clemow

Hi there,

2009/12/12 Stefan Blixt :

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Hmm, you shouldn't have to cast from a subclass to its superclass, should you?

Well, this is my feeling as well. A foo is-a spam. The object reference should work fine this way...

I agree. Back when I was starting out when classes and so on I did feel that this functionality was actually implied by the docs. I wonder whether that was intentional and that's actually meant to be how it should eventually work. This is one area where I do feel that the current docs need work. For one thing the "$" operator is only documented in how it casts from float to int, which is in and of itself a exception in that it loses information, unlike other forms of casting that need not lose information. Kas.