Re: [boost] any doc

From: Douglas Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-18 12:35:44

On Sunday 03 February 2002 05:46 pm, Ihsan Ali Al Darhi wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I looked at the documrntation or 'any' class. It looks good but it didn't
> tell any thing if i can use it as follows
>
> any x=foo();

"x" will contain the value returned from the function "foo" (if "foo" is a 
function), or a value of type "foo" (if "foo" is a type).

> It also didn't discuss this case
>
> any x=5;
> any y="5";
>
> any z=x+y;
>
> Now what is z? A string or a numeric?

You can't do that with any, because the '+' operator is not defined.

        Doug