What is the typical usage of boost any library?

Question

What are the advantages of using boost.any library ? Could you please give me some real life examples ? Why the same functionality couldn\'t be achieved by having some gener

Answer 1

boost::any will happily store ints and floats, types that clearly have no base classes. A real-life example where you can use it is a virtual machine for a high-level interpreted language. Your "function" objects will need an array of arguments. This can easily be implemented with a std::list behind the scenes.