From: Michael Abernethy <mna@duke.edu>
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  Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:38:03 -0400

instanceof

As I try to eliminate all our instaces of instanceof, I have thought of a 
couple of ways to get around using this.  Most of these are hacks around 
the problems, but was wondering if the following would be considered a hack.

instead of using instanceof, just calling the fuction we want like

(SuperClass).doSomething()

and then catching the ClassCastException

would this still be considered a hack, or is this now suddenly legitimate 
good code?

Mike Abernethy