Re: [groovy-dev] groovy-465: casting to primitives

On 24 May 2004, at 09:47, bing ran wrote:
>  http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY-465
>
> Since the Jira is not notifying observers, I'll post my comment here 
> for
> feedback:
>
>
> Comment by Bing Ran [24/May/04 04:42 AM]  Delete  [ Permlink ]
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> currently the AsmClasGen does nothing when it detects a casting to a
> primitive type.
>
> a quick fix would allow casting to a primitive to be equal to casting 
> to the
> primitive wrapper object, so that:
>
> d = 1.2
> i1 = (Integer)d
> i2 = (int)d
>
> assert i1 instanceof Integer
> assert i2 instanceof Integer
>
> Incidentally, the code in Groovy-467 would look slightly better:
>
>
>   void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
>     r = this.getBounds()
>     g.setColor(Color.black)
>
>     // TODO remove the Integer!
>     g.fillRect(0, 0, (int) r.width, (int) r.height)
>     g.setColor(Color.white)
>     g.drawString(text, (float)50, (float)50)
>   }
>
> Do you think making (int) == (Integer) acceptable for now?

Absolutely. Sounds great to me.

James
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