Re: [boost] [numeric_cast] request for boost:

Subject: Re: [boost] [numeric_cast] request for boost:
From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-06 10:09:00

On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:24:11 +0100, Mathias Gaunard
<mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
>> 
>> It does make me wonder if we should have a similar cast in Boost.Any:
>> 
>>   boost::any_downcast
>> 
>> ?
> 
> That approach seems like bloat.
> Couldn't polymorphic_cast and polymorphic_downcast be overloaded?

How is that less bloat? And why would you call the cast any->concrete type
a polymorphic cast?

Sebastian