Re: dynamic_cast is ugly!
Andy Champ wrote:
Daniel T. wrote:
On Mar 7, 10:37 am, Juha Nieminen <nos...@thanks.invalid> wrote:
Daniel T. wrote:
Agreed. If those were our only two options, then you are 100%
correct. Fortunately, there are other options.
Thanks for not giving even a hint of these other options and were
to find more info about them.
You didn't provide a requirements document so I can't give any
hint of what the hundereds of other design possibilities might be.
Instead you presented one spicific design that had a spicific
problem, and showed how dynamic_cast can fix the problem. I'm
simply saying that if you don't design your code like that in the
first place, you won't have the problem presented, and therefore
won't need dynamic_cast to fix it.
Daniel,
if the base class does not have an interface that exhibits the
enhanced behaviour, and if the base class is not under your control
(hence cannot be enhanced to add the new interface) you have no
choice but to use dynamic_cast to determine whether your object
exhibits the behaviour you require.
So you mean that if dynamic_cast was really, really hard to use, you
would just have had go back and demand a proper redesign of the base
class?
Then making dynamic_cast easier to use is perhaps not the best
solution. :-)
Bo Persson
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