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Coding Standards
polymorphic_cast was suggested by Bjarne Stroustrup in "The
C++ Programming Language".
polymorphic_downcast was contributed by Dave
Abrahams.
polymorphic_pointer_downcast was contributed by Boris
Rasin and polymorphic_pointer_cast by Antony Polukhin.
An old numeric_cast that was contributed by Kevlin
Henney is now superseeded by the Boost
Numeric Conversion Library