Downcasting Is A Code Smell | Code Walks 043
Downcasting is a fundamentally bad idea. In this video I talk about why. First from a theoretical point of view (all cats are animals but not all animals are cats) and then from a pragmatic collaboration perspective (I cannot trust your interface if you are downcasting).
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