Re: [boost] Formal Review: any

From: Darin Adler (darin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-03 13:27:02

on 11/3/00 10:10 AM, Dan Nuffer at dnuffer_at_[hidden] wrote:

> Also, I am using gcc 2.95.2 on Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 and any_cast wouldn't
> compile. gcc was giving the following warning:
> 
>   src/tokenizer/any.hpp:179: parse error before `>'
> 
> It didn't like the to_ptr<ValueType> for some strange reason.  It
> normally accepts this syntax...
> To get around the problem I had to add a little template helper:
> 
>   template <typename ValueType>
>   const ValueType * to_ptr_helper( ValueType* ) const
>   {
>       return const_cast<any *>(this)->to_ptr<ValueType>();
>   }

If we use this workaround, I recommend adding the "inline" keyword to this
function template.

    -- Darin