On Tuesday, 27 February 2024 01:28:05 PST Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 11:24 PM Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > And why would we want that? dynamic_cast does work on non-polymorphic
> > types; the fact that it knows the answer statically and you could have
> > used static_cast are irrelevant.
>
> I'm not sure what you're saying here . . . the following doesn't
> compile on all g++, clang++, intel:
>
> https://godbolt.org/z/1MEW6b1zY

Never mind, then. I've never used dynamic_cast in that scenario precisely
because static_cast works, so I didn't actually remember it was already
forbidden.

Still, we're missing your examination of use-cases.

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