in reply to Re^2: Static typing is mostly a waste of time
in thread Static typing is mostly a waste of time

     // the following line makes perfect sense to me,
     // but it causes a compiler error, I'm supposed to write:
     //     Person p = (Person)it.next();

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-- which says it all about the myph of "Java is more safe than C++, because... it doesn't have pointers"...:-))).

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