Re: [Vala] casting out parameters

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

Yeah that would be good to have. Jurg? What do you think about it? You will do in one line what we can now do 
with 3 and its easier to read.

I was also wondering the support for casting lambda/closure arguments like:

 Foo.connect ((myclass*)x,(mytype)y) => {
   ....
});

----- Original message -----
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 20:23 +0200, pancake wrote:
> > And if it's a subclass? Which is what 'as' does.
>
> 'as' is safe. If the cast is incompatible, you
> get null.
>
> Of course vala could have been designed to allow
>     test(out bar as Bar)
> or some other syntax to tell the compiler that
> we know what we are doing.
>
> hand
> Nor Jaidi Tuah