[boost] Re: Re: Re: more flexible any

From: Alexander Nasonov (alnsn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-03 02:41:27

Greg Colvin wrote:
> I'm not clear why 'dynamic_any' is a new thing, rather than just an
> improved version of 'any'.
Because when I took this decision I was sure that behavior of any_cast will 
be changed and it will break existent user code. In the presence of extract 
function behavior of any_cast can be kept. But is it good to keep two 
similar operations in one class? May be only for backward compatibility?
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