Possible Duplicate: Casting vs using the ‘as’ keyword in the CLR I recently learned about a different way to cast. Rather than using SomeClass someObject = (SomeClass) obj; one can use this sy...

2 Your problem is not the lack of "dynamic casting". Casting Integer to Double isn't possible at all. You seem to want to give Java an object of one type, a field of a possibly incompatible type, and have it …

Jun 24, 2011 · is there a possibility that casting a double created via Math.round() will still result in a truncated down number No, round() will always round your double to the correct value, and then, it …

Mar 13, 2011 · Casting in Java isn't magic, it's you telling the compiler that an Object of type A is actually of more specific type B, and thus gaining access to all the methods on B that you wouldn't have had …

Mar 15, 2011 · Casting can be used to clearly state that you are calling a child method and not a parent method. So in this case it's always a downcast or more correctly, a narrowing conversion.

Sep 25, 2008 · Direct Casting Types don't have to be strictly related. It comes in all types of flavors. Custom implicit/explicit casting: Usually a new object is created. Value Type Implicit: Copy without …

Jan 30, 2015 · Casting one of the operands of / to double which will lead to the other getting implicitly converted to a double too, and thus the division (and its result) would now be floating-point. Had you …

The C-style casts can do virtually all types of casting from normally safe casts done by static_cast<> () and dynamic_cast<> () to potentially dangerous casts like const_cast<> (), where const modifier can …

Aug 26, 2008 · Static cast is also used to cast pointers to related types, for example casting void* to the appropriate type. dynamic_cast Dynamic cast is used to convert pointers and references at run-time, …

Jun 23, 2013 · There are rules about casting pointers, a number of which are in clause 6.3.2.3 of the C 2011 standard. Among other things, pointers to objects may be cast to other pointers to objects and, …