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The syntax resembles the well 40 known C++ casts. Take note however that the lazy versions have a trailing 41 underscore. 42 </p> 43<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">static_cast_</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">>(</span><span class="identifier">lambda_expression</span><span class="special">)</span> 44<span class="identifier">dynamic_cast_</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">>(</span><span class="identifier">lambda_expression</span><span class="special">)</span> 45<span class="identifier">const_cast_</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">>(</span><span class="identifier">lambda_expression</span><span class="special">)</span> 46<span class="identifier">reinterpret_cast_</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">>(</span><span class="identifier">lambda_expression</span><span class="special">)</span> 47</pre> 48<p> 49 Example: 50 </p> 51<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">static_cast_</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">Base</span><span class="special">*>(&</span><span class="identifier">arg1</span><span class="special">)</span> 52</pre> 53<p> 54 Static-casts the address of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">arg1</span></code> 55 to a <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">Base</span><span class="special">*</span></code>. 56 </p> 57</div> 58<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> 59<td align="left"></td> 60<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2002-2005, 2010, 2014, 2015 Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden, Thomas 61 Heller, John Fletcher<p> 62 Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 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