[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Re: Cast Vs Dynamic-cast

[Lieven De Foor]

My gripe is that the compiler shouldn't catch this here, it should only get caught at run-time. Mike's example will always compile, yet not always work at run-time, and that's how I would expect CAST to work. You should always be able to do the CAST with a type instead of needing a DYNAMIC-CAST with type name string like in this case.

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