Thread: Is this a cast?

int x;
float a[10];

x = 1;
a[0] = (float)x;

This is a very simplified example of what their doing, but I'm used to seeing static_cast<float>. What's the difference here?

Then, right below it, after initializing x to 0 again, they do this:

t = float(x) / 35.0f;

putting the paratheses around the variable instead of float.