cast & instanceof

[Gunj Agarwal]

How is that I can cast a "null" to any class but when i use instanceof for same class it returns false....
i.e..if instanceof returns true then i can cast the variable...but though instanceof returns false for "null instanceof Light" iam able to type cast it

[Chris Brat]

Hi

instanceof checks if one reference to a class (an object of ClassA) is of the same type as another class (ClassB) or one of its decendant classes.

The comparison is always between an object on the left and a class on the right, and since null is not a class or an object it makes sense that you get false.


Chris