Re: [boost] library for type erasure

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-01 10:03:28

On Jul 27, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Steven Watanabe wrote:

> AMDG
>
>     Is there any interest in a library for type erasure? My basic
> idea is to define each operation separately and use a sequence
> of them.  As a simple example:
>
> void f() {
>     erasure<boost::mpl::vector<ostreamable, incrementable> > object 
> (0);
>     ++object;
>     std::cout << object; //prints 1
> }

I'm sure there's interest. Alexander Nasonov was working on a  
"dynamic_any" library with a similar approach.

        Doug