cast override suggestion

[sergeant-wizard]

Hi, guys!

Nice project!

I'm just curious, can't we override the type casts so that we don't have to specify Json::Value::as*()?

For example, with your current version, we have to specify the type of the values like:

Json::Value json;
int var1 = json["IntParam"].asInt();
std::string var2 = json["StrParam"].asString();

However, by applying this pull request, we can do something like:

Json::Value json;
int var1 = json["IntParam"];
std::string var2 = json["StrParam"];

without specifying the type, and leave it to the compiler to figure it out from the context.

You may have discussed this prior to transferring to GitHub, but I'd really like to know why you're adapting explicit type specifications without using the features of C++.

Thanks in advance :)

[cdunn2001]

I seem to remember reading something about this on of Scott Meyers' C++ books a long time ago. I highly recommend them.

Anyway, C++ typecast rules are complicated, especially for pointers (e.g. char*). It's much safer to be explicit, though it is a bit more verbose.