Thanks :¬)<br><br>I can&#39;t test it until tomorrow but it looks great. This appears to take boost::any closer to boost::variant.<br><br>&lt;&lt; support is most useful. I presume they still cast back to the original object in the same way that boost::any does and any non standard object they contain that will work in a stream will now work inside the boost::any.<br>

<br>Is this going to be an official update or just a branch for me.<br><br>Can I get a mention for inspiring the idea?<br><br>Whats the empty struct for in main?<br><br><br>Thanks for the info about Variant being faster. Especially with this new change it looks as if boost::any and boost::variant can be interchanged quite easily.<br>

<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 February 2010 21:10, Peter Foelsche <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:foelsche@sbcglobal.net">foelsche@sbcglobal.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">







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  <div>&quot;Alan Tennant&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:alan2here@gmail.com" target="_blank">alan2here@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote in message 
  <a href="news:a557f5fb1001301059h1dfc32davd917a47d8c598a05@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">news:a557f5fb1001301059h1dfc32davd917a47d8c598a05@mail.gmail.com</a>...</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">Firstly. 
  Thank you very much team Boost, it looks like it will be very useful and solve 
  many of my coding problems.<br><br>I can create an any<br>boost::any 
  a1;<br><br>I can assign something to it<br>a1 = string1;<br><br>I can get it 
  back out later<br>std::cout&lt;&lt;any_cast&lt;std::string&gt;(a1);<br><br>A 
  boost any has a &quot;type()&quot; method.<br><br>However this produced an 
  error.<br><br>std::cout&lt;&lt;any_cast&lt;a1.type()&gt;(a1);<br>
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