[Boost-users] boost::any with const value types

I'm finding that if I store a `char*` versus `char const*` in a boost::any object, that this impacts the behavior of boost::any_cast. I do not find this documented anywhere. For example, if I store a const qualified character pointer in a boost::any object, then I do `boost::any_cast<char*>(......)`, it will throw. Changing the type to `char const*` fixes it. Is this by design? I find this makes things more difficult to deal with since I don't always know if the type I'm getting is const or not. Also my implementation does not change depending on constness.