mi_cast

[Scott Wheeler]

After a few recent threads on kde-cvs I've come to wonder if a simple define 
in one of the KDE headers would be of some utility -- 
 
Specifically I'd like to add a: 
 
#define mi_cast dynamic_cast 
 
Alternatively something like: 
 
template <class From, class To> To mi_cast(From v) 
{ 
  return dynamic_cast<To>(v); 
} 
 
Should work, but I think would be less semantically nice... 
 
Or something similar -- whatever -- we simply have the problem that a lot of 
people don't know how to use dynamic_cast and when reading through sources you 
often hit false positives where it was actually someone using a dynamic_cast 
to cast "sideways" across a multiple inheritance hierarchy. 
 
It would be nice if we had a "I know what I'm doing" indicator of sorts. 
 
Thoughts?  Flames? 
 
-Scott 
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