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

"Alan Tennant" wrote in message news:a557f5fb1002011639i142be9a0j29205e3ae643a6a9@mail.gmail.com... Thanks :¼)

I can't test it until tomorrow but it looks great. This appears to take boost::any closer to boost::variant.

<< support is most useful. I presume they still cast back to the original object in the same way that boost::any does and any non standard object they contain that will work in a stream will now work inside the boost::any.

Is this going to be an official update or just a branch for me.

I'm still unclear how to work with the people from boost. Usually I'm posting something here and hope for an answer.

Can I get a mention for inspiring the idea?

Whats the empty struct for in main?

just for testing what happens if some class does not provide the << operator. Peter

Thanks for the info about Variant being faster. Especially with this new change it looks as if boost::any and boost::variant can be interchanged quite easily.

On 1 February 2010 21:10, Peter Foelsche wrote:

see attached

Peter "Alan Tennant" wrote in message news:a557f5fb1001301059h1dfc32davd917a47d8c598a05@mail.gmail.com... 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<std::string(a1);

A boost any has a "type()" method.

However this produced an error.

std::cout<(a1);

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