Storing a list of arbitrary objects in C++

Question

In Java, you can have a List of Objects. You can add objects of multiple types, then retrieve them, check their type, and perform the appropriate action for that type.
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Answer 1

Your example using Boost.Variant and a visitor:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

using namespace std;
using namespace boost;

typedef variant object;

struct vis : public static_visitor<>
{
    void operator() (string s) const { /* do string stuff */ }
    void operator() (int i) const { /* do int stuff */ }
    void operator() (bool b) const { /* do bool stuff */ }      
};

int main() 
{
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