I have a question about the use of Any, especially when used in a larger facility such as program_options.&nbsp; There doesn&#39;t seem to be a (easy) way to post-process the results of a facility that has generically stuffed a bunch of values into a list of Any&#39;s.&nbsp; For example, if I wanted to a program to spit out all of its options to standard out, there doesn&#39;t seem to be any hooks to extract an Any value in a generic way (e.g., as a string).&nbsp; Granted, I could derive a class and add methods to do so, but that doesn&#39;t work when Any is already embedded in the program_options implementation.<br>
<br>I certainly could be missing something here.&nbsp; I haven&#39;t used Any or program_options yet, and trying to understand all of the possibilities from the spec-like doc is hard.&nbsp; How do the rest of you do such things?<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Jeffery Cavallaro, 1055 Joaquin-191A<br>Infrastructure Engineering<br>Google Inc.<br>1600 Amphitheatre Parkway<br>Mountain View, CA 94043<br>650-214-2552