On Tuesday 21 January 2003 04:24 pm, David Abrahams wrote:
> Unai Uribarri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Currently, any_cast doesn't allow to cast to
> > references. Instead, you have obscure castings from
> > any* to T returning T*.
>
> That sounds like a design mistake on the face of it.
This comment has come up before, and everyone seems to agree that we'd prefer
the semantics that Unai proposes. I think the only reason that we haven't
changed the semantics is that we don't want to change Kevlin's design without
hearing the reasons for the existing design.
Doug
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