Re: [Boost-users] boost any questions and praise

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost any questions and praise
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-30 14:58:21

AMDG

Alan Tennant wrote:
> 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);
>   

Template parameters have to be types.
The result of a1.type() is a std::type_info object.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe