Re: [Boost-users] Syntax of get for Variant and any_cast for Any

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-10 17:29:19

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Scott Meyers
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:04 PM
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Syntax of get for Variant and 
> any_cast for Any
> My only other knowledge of "get" is from tuple, where "get" 
> takes a compile-time 
> constant, not a type, as an argument.  With that background, 
> I found the use of 
> "get" for variant initially confusing.  I think it'd be 
> better to find a name 
> with the "_cast" suffix and to explicitly specify pointer and 
> reference types 
> (as with dynamic_cast) and adopt that convention.  I don't 
> know enough about the 
> various Boost libraries to know whether that is a reasonable 
> suggestion.

I think shared_ptr has dynamic_pointer_cast or something. This is much
easier to read than get