What is the typical usage of boost any library?

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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

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Why the same functionality couldn't be achieved by having some generic type in the root of object's hierarchy and creating containers with that base type ?

That calls an object hierarchy -- a construct you are injecting in artificially in to the design for solving a peripheral problem. Further, such a construct is easy to get wrong and a wrong implementation can wreak havoc. Boost.Any is a community reviewed safe, well-tested alternative.

Could you please give me some real life examples ?

TinyJSON uses boost.Any.

What are the advantages of using boost.any library ?

I refer the introductory documentation.