Re: [boost] Re: Re: dynamic_void_cast

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-11 11:41:18

Terje Slettebø <tslettebo_at_[hidden]> writes:

> I understand you (Johan) want to be able to have generic factories, but then
> erasing the type is probably not the way to go, and as has been pointed out
> in this thread, void * is type erasure. More or less the only safe thing you
> can do with it, is to delete it. 

Not even that, usually.

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