Re: calling methods help

On 2005-08-10, Eric Sosman penned:
>
> a classB. (But the compiler isn't entirely trusting: if you
> happen to be wrong and `a' refers to a classZ instead, you'll
> get a ClassCastException at run-time.)
>

I think that happens because the compiler *is* entirely trusting.

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