[boost] Re: BIL and boost::any

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-02 17:38:50

Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> Jonathan Turkanis writes:

>> I'm thinking of adding a template boost::interfaces::any, which has
>> cloning semantics and uses the same syntax as any for binding, i.e.,
>> assignment and construction from a const reference.
>>
>>      template<typename Interface = IAnything>
>>      class any;
>
> Are you aware of Alexander Nasonov's work on "dynamic_any"
>
(http://cpp-experiment.sourceforge.net/boost/libs/dynamic_any/doc/tutorial.html)
?

Yes, in fact I borrowed the extract function from dynamic_any.

There seem to be some close connections between dynamic_any and the interface
library, but I'm not yet sure what they are. ;-)

Jonathan