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Matthew Houston
7,203 PointsCasting in Programming and Using Swift
What is casting in programming. For example, what would casting look like using the Swift programming language?
3 Answers
Thiago de Bastos
14,556 PointsHopefully these sources point you in the right direction!
"Casting is used when you, as the developer, have a reference to an object of type ClassA, but you >know that the object type is actually of type ClassB, where ClassB extends ClassA.
This comes into play for generic methods that return Object. You want to invoke methods of the >actual type, so you have to explicitly cast the Object to MyClass. Essentially, you are telling the >compiler you know what you are doing.
At runtime, if the Object is not a MyClass, you will get a RunTimeException.
A similar question has been answered over at stackexchange.
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Stephen Whitfield
16,771 PointsAnswer to your second question ("What would casting look like in Swift?") here
Matthew Houston
7,203 PointsThanks Guys!
Dustin Matlock
33,856 PointsDustin Matlock
33,856 PointsMatthew, since you were asking in regards to Swift, I went ahead and updated the topic for you. I also edited the topic a bit. You usually can get more answers with a descriptive title. Hope you get some good answers on this.