downcasting (Q4371845)
the act of casting a reference of a base class to one of its derived classes; a type cast which breaks the abstraction model; the abstraction may have to be refactored or eliminated
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description the act of casting a reference of a base class to one of its derived classes; a type cast which breaks the abstraction model; the abstraction may have to be refactored or eliminated

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