Automatic « cast « Java Data Type Q&A

1. Would Automatic Casts be useful? stackoverflow.com

Is there any downside or problem potential to change the Java compiler to automatically cast? In the example below the result of list.get(0) would automatically be casted to the type of ...

2. Automatic casting from one object-class to another stackoverflow.com

I have two Java-Classes as follows:

public class MyClass {
...
}

public class MyClassList extends ArrayList<MyClass> {
...
}

Now i have any method which takes MyClassList as a parameter. The method should also accept MyClass instead. ...

3. Automatic casting stackoverflow.com

I have to write program that gets n number from user, and then calculates sum on this way: s = 1/1 + 1/2 + ... + 1/n. I wrote this code:

import java.util.Scanner;

public ...

4. Type casting and automatic type promotion in Java stackoverflow.com

Let's consider some simple expressions in Java.

byte var=0;

var=(byte)(var+1);

Here, in the above statement, obviously type casting is needed because of automatic type promotion. The evaluation of the expression (var+1) is automatically promoted ...

5. Automatic Conversion / Cast coderanch.com

Hello, The automatic cast from float to int takes only place for first parameter. Why not for the second, too? class Test104 { public static void main( String[] args ) { int x = 1 ; float y = 1.0F ; //Automatic Conversion float to int //Only takes place for SECOND Operator if ( x == y ) { System.out.println( "Equal1" ...

6. disabling automatic type casting coderanch.com

I am writing an method which take int as input. I want to ensure that the argument received is exactly of int type and not of byte, short, char. Like that I am writing many methods in which I expect the exact variables. How can I disable the automatic type conversion at the method level, and how do I check the ...