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

I consider that Boost.Variant should always be preferred as it's non-intrusive and still calls for very structured programming.

But i guess the main idea behind boost.any is to provide the equivalent of java and c# object types. It's a way of saying "yes we can" ! :-)