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Daniel Kr=FCgler wrote:
> I always wondered, how Java could live with the essential
> double-casting idiom
>=20
>     if (x instanceof Foo) {
>        Foo f =3D (Foo) x;
>     }

It is an inconvenience to the programmer; for the record, that's a=20
low-hanging fruit for the simplest optimizers.

Andrei

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