[boost] Re: Variant (aka Discriminated Union) implementation

From: Nicola Musatti (Nicola.Musatti_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-25 09:49:01

Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
[...]
> In database application or script languages, for example,
> variant values are created at run-time,
> So as far as I see, templates not work here. Agree?
> 
> This is why for such applications we need
> 
> Class IValue {}
> Class IntValue : public IValue {}
> Class FloatValue : public IValue {}
> Class StringValue : public IValue {}
> 
> And so on.
> 
> Does BOOST org interested in such solutions?

Isn't boost::any more similar to what you're looking for?

Cheers,
Nicola Musatti