Re: [Boost-users] Is there an elegant way to initialize an instanceof boost::any with a C-style string constant?

From: peter_foelsche_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-07-09 13:25:01

> I don't know, but it makes sense to me: an array is not just a pointer!
> boost::any always stores a /copy/ of its constructor argument or assignment
> argument.  So /if/ it would support built-in arrays, I think it should copy
> their elements internally.  

A C++ programmer expects that a pointer is being passed everywhere where he is passing an array argument.