[Boost-users] question on using any.

17 Apr 2006

      Any ideas on how to store the type of an object stored in an any instance
for later use in comparisons (like <, >, ==, etc)?  I don't want to store an
instance of the class unless necessary.  I thought about storing a pointer
to the type, but could that be used with any_cast?

like:

template<class type>
class typestuffPOD {
    typedef type value_type;
     type *datatype_;
}

   This requires knowing the type when you want to use the any_cast.

Sincerely,
Joe McCay