Unai Uribarri Rodríguez wrote: > any_cast, as is implemented in boost 1.29, has one weakness; it doesn't > allow to compile this piece of code: > > any x=int(5); > ++any_cast<int&>(x); > > because any_cast tries to instanciate a pointer to int&. The attached > patch solved this problem using boost::remove_reference from > boost/type_traits.hpp. > > any_cast<T&>(x) will return a reference to value contained in x if its > type is T, or raise bad_cast otherwise.
Boost.dynamic_any has extract functinos which work this way. -- Alexander Nasonov Remove -mycop from my e-mail address for timely response _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
