(String) casts in SortNames

[Peter Gragert]

My environment is too stupid to make distinction between
casts and identifiers.
So I got "( String ) object" by 'beautifying' and got nitpicked a number of times.
So do not do that, read the style guide again!

[Paul Ralph]

You aren't allowed to make casts from Object to String?
Paul R

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

You can cast an Object to a String if the Object was originally a String that was stored as an Object.

[Peter Gragert]

What I meant is: '(String)object' versus '( String ) object'
Styleguide conformance, you see three spaces? ;-)

[Johannes de Jong]

I'm not sure I understand,

• (String)object <- the nitpickers way ?
• ( String ) object <- your way ?

The first one is correct, see 2.2 - Spacing

This is true. -- Marilyn


[This message has been edited by Johannes de Jong (edited June 01, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by Marilyn deQueiroz (edited June 01, 2001).]

[Michael Pearson]

Thanks to the style guide (and Marilyn reminding me) I learned this lesson.
Now that I use the style guide format it makes it a lot easier to spot a cast in my code.
Michael

[Peter Gragert]

Hello Michael,
You mean a regular expression: '(\w+)' (emacs)?!
No answer necessary.
Have a nice weekend
Peter