[vtk-developers] Casting vtkIntArray vs vtkIdTypeArray

[David Doria]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:50 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> That's not a C++ cast, that's a transformation operation....
>
> All the array classes are siblings of each other, aren't they?
>
>
Maybe my terminology is off, but whatever it is called I feel that it should
work and it currently doesn't :)

Yes, they are all siblings. Are you recommending first SafeDownCasting to a
vtkDataArray, checking the type, and then performing the appropriate
SafeDownCast? That seems like a lot of trouble, no?

David
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