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 _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost