"Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental@thomson.com> wrote in message news:d5tp6p$97c$1@sea.gmane.org... | | "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> wrote in message | news:d5todb$5hk$1@sea.gmane.org... | > Hi, | > | > is there any reason why we cannot say | > | > Base& get_ref(); | > Derived& boost::polymorphic_downcast<Derived&>( get_ref() ); | > | > ? | > | > It works with pointers, shouldn't we overload for references? | | I've even implemented one, updated docs and submitted. See thread with | "cast.hpp" in it's name Ok, I can't find it in the cvs, so I assume it is not part of 1.33? -Thorsten