Thanks :¬) I can't test it until tomorrow but it looks great. This appears to take boost::any closer to boost::variant. << support is most useful. I presume they still cast back to the original object in the same way that boost::any does and any non standard object they contain that will work in a stream will now work inside the boost::any. Is this going to be an official update or just a branch for me. Can I get a mention for inspiring the idea? Whats the empty struct for in main? Thanks for the info about Variant being faster. Especially with this new change it looks as if boost::any and boost::variant can be interchanged quite easily. On 1 February 2010 21:10, Peter Foelsche <foelsche@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
see attached
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"Alan Tennant" <alan2here@gmail.com> wrote in message news:a557f5fb1001301059h1dfc32davd917a47d8c598a05@mail.gmail.com... Firstly. Thank you very much team Boost, it looks like it will be very useful and solve many of my coding problems.
I can create an any boost::any a1;
I can assign something to it a1 = string1;
I can get it back out later std::cout<<any_cast<std::string>(a1);
A boost any has a "type()" method.
However this produced an error.
std::cout<<any_cast<a1.type()>(a1);
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