Timeline for Past tense of “to cast” in the programming sense
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| Nov 19, 2021 at 23:00 | comment | added | Lambie | principal parts: cast, cast, cast. No exceptions. | |
| Nov 19, 2021 at 20:32 | answer | added | David S. | timeline score: -1 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 4:19 | answer | added | Daxx | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 18, 2014 at 20:36 | vote | accept | Daniel Wolf | ||
| Jan 18, 2014 at 13:10 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/424529343206141952 | ||
| Jan 18, 2014 at 1:08 | answer | added | Jon Hanna | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 23:18 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'd use past tense cast for fishing but casted for plays/programmes. For programs, I'll defer to Janus. | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 23:09 | answer | added | Jonathan Van Matre | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 22:09 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'm not sure I'd ever have used casted myself - it has a distinctly "dated" flavour to me, bordering on the archaic. But it's interesting that this is one of relatively few verbs bucking what I see as a slow but steady drift towards regularising the conjugation. | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 21:17 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @JanusBahsJacquet Interesting. I can’t say casted at all. | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 21:08 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I would personally use ‘casted’ in the sense of casting someone for a play, or of putting a cast on someone (“They casted him for the role” and “Her leg was casted”), but when coding, I would say, for example, “I cast the float as a string”, and “The float was recast as a string”. | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 21:07 | answer | added | Gnawme | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Jan 17, 2014 at 21:03 | comment | added | John Lawler |
This is a special sense and a causative one at that. Zero-derived causatives are often regular, even with an irregular intransitive. Like shine, shone, shone (vi) vs shine, shined, shined (vt). So it could be either one. So the correct way to find out is to ask English-speaking programmers which one they use. More on the subject of monosyllabic t/d-final uninflected verbs here (click on -- show quoted text -- to get the context).
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| Jan 17, 2014 at 20:54 | comment | added | Doc |
Cast is pretty much always simply cast regardless of tense, the exception being casting. That said, casted has been around for a long time and wouldn't be misunderstood (though many frown upon it). See this link for some more information.
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| Jan 17, 2014 at 20:53 | history | edited | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2014 at 20:46 | history | asked | Daniel Wolf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |