Hi everyone.I've got a question on dynamic cast.Dynamic_cast allows us to downcast a data type from one to a more specific one in the same hierarchy.
But why not declare the variable we need to the appropriate type during programming time rather than downcasting it at run time?
I don't think that the developers of C++ included dymanic_cast by mistake or for the sake of commands redundancy... Then why? What's its additional use and benefits??
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>But why not declare the variable we need to the appropriate type
>during programming time rather than downcasting it at run time?
Because that might not be practical. Consider an array of base class pointers with varying dynamic types down the …
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