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| to undefined behavior, but also because it's very easy to break the constness-related best practices while using it. | ||
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| To learn about all the rules related to const_cast, visit |
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Remove this sentence, it's redundant
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| To learn about all the rules related to dynamic_cast, visit |
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Remove this sentence, it's redundant
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| ## Notes | ||
| Downcasting can be applied through static_cast as well, but in that case no runtime check is performed. |
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Try to shorten the language in general, minimizing the word count. In this case "You can downcast with static_cast as well, but no runtime check is performed."
| if the conversion could not be applied. This also implies a little overhead when using this cast. | ||
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| ## Useful conversions | ||
| dynamic_cast is mostly used when we need to downcast a base class to its derived class. |
| ## Examples | ||
| - Remove constness: | ||
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| int main() { |
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Reduce LOC by removing int main(), we don't need a whole program to demonstrate how it works
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| [cppreference: const_cast](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/const_cast) |
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Add more links in both articles. Stackoverflow posts, CppCoreGuidelines recommendations for dynamic-cast and const-cast, etc.
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