Re: [Boost-users] Making boost::any play nice in function overloads

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Making boost::any play nice in function overloads
From: dakatz_at_[hidden]
Date: 2010-09-30 12:40:34

On 28/09/10 18:09, dakatz_at_[hidden] wrote:

>> When I tried to call doSomething with a string literal argument
>> (i.e. table.doSomething("Hello")), it of course failed since boost:any
>> can't be initialized with an array.  Okay - no problem.  Another
>> overload should do the trick, right?
>>
>> So I added an overload like this:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> class Table
>> {
>> public:
>> void doSomething(const boost::any&  input);
>>
>> // Supposed to take a const char*, convert it to a string, and
>> // pass off to boost::any case.
>> void doSomething(const std::string&  input);
>
> How about
>
> template<std::size_t N>
> void doSomething(const char (&input)[N]);

Oh, that's very nice.  And works beautifully.

Thanks!

Dan