Re: [boost] Formal Review: Boost Cast Library

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-12-07 11:14:31

At 08:24 PM 12/6/2000 -0800, Jesse Jones wrote:

 >polymorphic_cast and polymorphic_downcast are rather trivial and seem to
 >mostly be rarely useful so I'm inclined to say that they should not be 
part
 >of boost.

They may seem trivial, but it took comments from at least four very 
experienced programmers to get them right.

Furthermore, their very existence will encourage programmers to write more 
reliable code.

I thing they definitely belong in boost, and probably in the C++ Standard 
Library too.

--Beman