Rob Stewart wrote:
From: "Yuval Ronen" <ronen_yuval@yahoo.com>
function invocation, and being shorter.
I blieve this a matter of point of view. I think of it as "extracting the inner object" within the any object, so get() sounds more intuitive. I'd much rather writing something like: int a = some_any.get<int>();
But you can't. You have to write the following, as I showed above:
int a = some_any.template get<int>();
You think of it as a cast so any_cast sounds better to you. My guess that neither of us will be able to convince the other, so I'll suggest some sort of compromise: why don't we have both?
Do you still like your version?
Yes, I think cast fits quite nicely, but I hate forcing the use of the "template" qualifier in function calls when I can avoid it.
I can just imagine the deluge of support emails asking why some_any.get<int>() won't work! Jeff