[boost] Re: A replacement to any_cast

From: Stefan Slapeta (stefan_nospam__at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-08 16:26:08

Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:

> 
> I proposed enhancing any_cast by adding support
> for extracting reference to the held value some
> time ago(and it was proposed in the past), 

That was probably me.

> but nobody
> replied to that message. Looks like Boost.Any 
> maintainer's on the vacation.
> Basic idea was to make this work
> (now you have to use some obscure syntax):
> T& object = any_cast<T&>(any_object);
> 

I would like to see exactly the same semantics as for boost::get in the 
variant library: http://tinyurl.com/43nks

Stefan