The explicit type conversion, sometimes referred to as C-style casting or static casting, is a legacy of compatibility of C++ with the C language and it enables you to perform various conversions:
- Between arithmetical types
- Between pointer types
- Between integral and pointer types
- Between const or volatile qualified and unqualified types
- Any combination of the previous one and any of the preceding conversions
This type of casting does not work well with polymorphic types or in templates. Because of this, C++ provides the four casts we saw in the examples earlier. Using these casts leads to several important benefits:
- They express user intent better, both to the compiler and others that read the code.
- They enable safer conversion ...
