
6 Nov
2008
6 Nov
'08
3:09 p.m.
On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:24:11 +0100, Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
It does make me wonder if we should have a similar cast in Boost.Any:
boost::any_downcast
?
That approach seems like bloat. Couldn't polymorphic_cast and polymorphic_downcast be overloaded?
How is that less bloat? And why would you call the cast any->concrete type a polymorphic cast? Sebastian