[Insight-developers] STYLE: Un-necessary use of static_cast -- should we care?

[Sean McBride]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:42:25 +0000, Williams, Norman K said:

>So the question is this: do we keep static_cast where they aren't needed?

My 2¢: I think that kind of unnecessary cast is a code smell, and would remove it.

>and should we add dynamic_cast in the frequent case where an input or
>output of a filter is assumed to be of a particular type?

Perhaps in a debug-only assert()?

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