From: Unai Uribarri Rodríguez (unaiur_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-17 13:17:51
Alexander Nasonov wrote:
> Unai Uribarri Rodríguez wrote:
>
>
>>Alexander Nasonov wrote:
>>
>>>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)
>>>
>>>Boost.dynamic_any has extract functinos which work this way.
>>
>>But this patch adds that functionality without breaking the interface.
>
>
> For broken compilers it could break all because remove_reference might not
> work for them.
>
If you see the compiler status page, you can see that the any test and
the remove_reference works with the all compilers except Visual C++ 6 &
7 and SGI MIPSpro CC 7.3.1.2m. The any_test fails also with Sun Workshop
6U2.
Therefore, this patch doesn't affect the portability of any.