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| Subject | use | have syntax | done | has definition | is a kind of | perform |
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| casting | The process of producing a new value that has a different type than its source | mechanism | ||||
| casting an object | to convert an object to a primitive type - use a wrapper class instead | (classname)object | explicitly if the destination type is a superclass of the source type | casting | if the source and destination types of the object are related by inheritance - one class must be a subclass of the other |
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