I agree. A strongly-typed language needs a way to convert between types. That does not mean it is no longer a strongly-typed language. If there were no way to do so, it would no longer be useful. Shalom > I suspect that the intent was to say something more like > > "The existence of casts may enable tools to perform stronger > type checking, by providing a mechanism for users to suppress > that type checking when desired." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Israel (74) Limited This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Fri Apr 4 00:18:21 2008
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