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Subject: Re: [boost] Adding any_dynamic_cast?
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-11-12 09:56:52


Steven Watanabe wrote:

> This idea was proposed a long time ago by Alexander Nasonov. He even
> used the same name.

I remember Alexander Nasonov's dynamic_any, but my recollection was that it
was dynamic in the sense of allowing additional operations on any<> such as
for example operator== and so on.

Although you're right, it uses this exact technique.

http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/biblio/ddj/Website/articles/CUJ/2003/0309/cujweb0309nasonov/

We didn't adopt that for some reason, anybody remember why?


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