forceCast

Force-casts this (possibly null) receiver to T, with no runtime type check performed by this function itself (on the JVM, this is a plain as T unchecked cast; on JS, it goes through a dynamic value, bypassing type checking altogether). Use this only where the caller has independent, external knowledge that the cast is safe (e.g. the Cursor plus operator in CursorExtensions.kt uses it to narrow an Iterable-backed Cursor<out T> back down to a Cursor<T>), since, unlike a checked as T, an invalid cast may not fail immediately at the call site, but only later, wherever the miscast value is first used as a T.

Force-casts this (possibly null) receiver to T, with no runtime type check performed by this function itself (on the JVM, this is a plain as T unchecked cast; on JS, it goes through a dynamic value, bypassing type checking altogether). Use this only where the caller has independent, external knowledge that the cast is safe (e.g. the Cursor plus operator in CursorExtensions.kt uses it to narrow an Iterable-backed Cursor<out T> back down to a Cursor<T>), since, unlike a checked as T, an invalid cast may not fail immediately at the call site, but only later, wherever the miscast value is first used as a T.

Force-casts this (possibly null) receiver to T, with no runtime type check performed by this function itself (on the JVM, this is a plain as T unchecked cast; on JS, it goes through a dynamic value, bypassing type checking altogether). Use this only where the caller has independent, external knowledge that the cast is safe (e.g. the Cursor plus operator in CursorExtensions.kt uses it to narrow an Iterable-backed Cursor<out T> back down to a Cursor<T>), since, unlike a checked as T, an invalid cast may not fail immediately at the call site, but only later, wherever the miscast value is first used as a T.