[Boost-users] boost::variant implictly change a pointer type to bool

From: Zhang, Yanbin (yanbin.zhang_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-16 20:32:19

Can someone give me a hint about this. 

If I define a variant type
boost::variant<double,std::string> var;
and it will not compile if I do the following:
int an_int(8);
int* p_int(&an_int);
var=p_int;
std::cout << var.which() << std::endl;

But if I define the type including bool:
boost::variant<double,std::string,bool> var;
the above code can compile and prints 2.
It seems that when type bool is in the list, any pointer assigned to var will convert to a bool. The bad thing is that the compiler will not complain about it.
Is there a way to prevent the assignment of a pointer type to a boost::variant variable?
I am new to boost and I would be very appreciated if someone can help me on this.

Yanbin Zhang