Issue about casting object brackets

Question

I have noticed that there are two ways to cast objects (the difference is the placement of the outer parenthesis):

 1. SimpleType simpleType = ((SimpleType)          


        

Answer 1

They are not the same.

• The first casts the result of getType to SimpleType.
• The second casts property to SimpleType and calls getType on it, yet the result of getType is not casted to SimpleType.