Quote Originally Posted by superbonzo View Post
yes I did; mine was a rhetoric question because I didn't actually find any; moreover, I know you like bullet lists ...
XD

About casts: OK. But I think it's fair to let the OP decide. There's the smal matter of "experience required in order to do so", in which case: do what the C++ experts say .
But there's always room for re-evaluation of adopted practices. Fair enough?