In the C++ Without Fear: A Beginner's Guide That Makes You Feel Smart book, and in chapter (8), it mentions the following about reinterpret_cast

....converts from one pointer type (int) to another (char*). Because the cast changes the way the data pointed to is interpreted, it is called reinterpret_cast, as opposed to static_cast.*

Can you describe this paragraph here? Especially the reason for the way the operation is named?

Thanks.