[boost] Suggestions for new types in the Boost.Any library

From: christopher diggins (cdiggins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-24 19:19:14

Since there has been interest in making changes to boost::any, I thought I 
would suggest a couple of new types which would be appropriate for the any 
namespace, which I find useful and use commonly.

- A typed_any. This is a type very similar to any with the added restriction 
that it can not be reset, it must be initialized with a type, and once 
initialized it can only hold values of that type. I am using a homegrown 
version an interpreter for a strongly typed scripting language 
(HeronScript).

- any_ptr. The name says it all.

Anyone else interested in these types?

Christopher Diggins
http://www.cdiggins.com