Boost users' mailing page: Re: [Boost-users] Is there an elegant way to initialize an instanceof boost::any with a C-style string constant?

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From: peter_foelsche_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-07-09 13:25:01

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> I don't know, but it makes sense to me: an array is not just a pointer!
> boost::any always stores a /copy/ of its constructor argument or assignment
> argument. So /if/ it would support built-in arrays, I think it should copy
> their elements internally.

A C++ programmer expects that a pointer is being passed everywhere where he is passing an array argument.

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