Okay -- just make it a new issue if you could.

On Nov 6, 2013, at 8:46 PM, Bob Carpenter <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In src/stan/gm/command.hpp:
> 
> >      template<class Sampler>
> >      bool init_adapt(stan::mcmc::base_mcmc* sampler, categorical_argument* adapt) {
> > -
> > +      
> >        double delta = dynamic_cast<real_argument*>(adapt->arg("delta"))->value();
> 
> It's the implication that we're going to do run-time type checking, which I'd prefer to avoid. I'm just a static type-checking nut, hence all the type declarations in Stan. Let me get some time to look at the code when we get the Novartis models under control (we just fit some fake data in pretty much the full model and it seems to be working). Maybe I can figure out how to get rid of the casts. - Bob
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