Nindi Singh wrote:

This has the desired effects BUT ... I am not a software engineer .. so I would like to know is it would the proffessionals would consider ugly code ?

#include<string> #include

typedef boost::variant< bool,std::string> BoostVariant;

struct MyVariant:public BoostVariant {

template<typename type> MyVariant(const type &theType):BoostVariant(theType){}

MyVariant(const char *theCString):BoostVariant(std::string(theCString)){} };

int main () { MyVariant v("A String"); std::string &Sref(boost::getstd::string&(v)); // NOw this does NOT throw bool &Bref(boost::get(v)); // but this does return 0; }

Looks quite reasonable. I guess that making a derived class would also be my solution in this case.