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downcasting

the act of casting a reference of a base class to one of its derived classes; a type cast which breaks the abstraction model; the abstraction may have to be refactored or eliminated
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downcasting

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Key Facts

  • downcasting's subclass of is recorded as type conversion[1].
  • downcasting's part of is recorded as code smell[2].
  • downcasting's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02rszfx[3].

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  1. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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