Re: [boost] Boost.Any and duck typing [was: 'Nother BoostBon Trip Report]

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-22 10:59:45

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> Eric Niebler wrote:
>> This one by Greg Colvin. (BoostCon had two tracks. So why not two trip 
>> reports?) Enjoy! http://www.artima.com/cppsource
> 
> By following that link, I got on your own report.
> 
> I was surprised to see you considered boost.any to be a form of duck typing.
> To me, it's not duck typing at all.

I didn't mean to imply that. I meant that Sean's technique was similar 
to duck typing, and it uses Boost.Any's type erasure technique.

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