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Re:Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform by xfer on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:34PM (#17709831)
You can't downcast it to anything you want, it returns an Option, void pointers in C are not certainly the same, it's unsafe.
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Re:Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform by foldr on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:49PM (#17709992)
I know. That's why I said it's "a safe analogue of casting a void pointer to another type".
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