On Dec 8, 2004, at 3:25 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
Yuval Ronen <ronen_yuval <at> yahoo.com> writes:
Hi, I've checked the 'any' library, and I have a suggestion. Wouldn't it be nicer if class any will have a member method like:
template <typename T> T get() const;
I personally don't see any benefit to this. Maybe it looks a little more "OO", but any_cast truly is a cast (as with
I proposed enhancing any_cast by adding support for extracting reference to the held value some time ago(and it was proposed in the past), but nobody replied to that message.
I thought we had decided that we wanted to do it (a very long time ago), but nobody actually supplied a portable implementation. It seems that it wouldn't be too hard to do.
Looks like Boost.Any maintainer's on the vacation.
Kevlin has not been active recently, and for all practice purposes Boost.Any does not have a maintainer. Doug