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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">polymorphic_cast</span></code> was suggested
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">polymorphic_downcast</span></code> was contributed
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">polymorphic_pointer_downcast</span></code>
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was contributed by <a href="http://www.boost.org/people/boris_rasin.htm" target="_top">Boris
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Rasin</a> and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">polymorphic_pointer_cast</span></code>
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by Antony Polukhin.
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">polymorphic_downcast</span></code> overload
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for references was contributed by Julien Delacroix.
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An old <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">numeric_cast</span></code> that was
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