Re: [Boost-users] [any] Is it possible to support polymorphism in boost::any?

On 06/09/10 16:49, Tang Jiang Jun wrote:

I agree with you that void* just support polymorphism for single inheritance. However I think maybe it is possible to make boost::any to support full polymorphic behavior, because, for boost::any, there still has accurate type information when casting happens. With some tricks, maybe we can use dynamic_cast to help boost::any to cast the internal pointer to correct child class object.

I'd be surprised there is such a trick to do that.