Boost::Any ported to D

[Marcin Kuszczak]

Fredrik Olsson wrote:

> Bruno Medeiros skrev:
>>> 2. Arrays with static size are not fully supported e.g. function can not
>>> return static array. Also static arrays are not implicitly converted to
>>> dynamic arrays, so when assigning string to Any class there is a need to
>>> cast to dynamic array:
>>>         (new Any).assign(cast(char[])("char[] test"));
>> 
>> Static arrays are teh suck. :(
>> "Certain aspects of D are a pathway to many issues some consider to
>> be... unnatural." :P
>> 
> Perhaps a prefix is in order, in your example:
> (new Any).assign(d"char[] test"); // Dynamic
> (new Any).assign(s"char[] test"); // Static
> 
> And same for the new array literals (That I love).
> (new Any).assign(d[1,2,3]); // Dynamic
> (new Any).assign(s[1,2,3]); // Static
> 
> I guess no prefix would default to static as is?
> 
> 
> (And before you even think about going about to complain about choosing
> 'd', and 's' as prefixes have in mind: I do not care if any other
> character is used, if it is postfix instead, or whatere. It is the
> functionality I want!)
> 
> 
> // Fredrik Olsson

Unfortunately this functionality doesn't work with my installed compiler
(dmd 0.167 / Linux) :-( I assume it is a bug?

None of your examples work (I get "undefined identifier d" error)
(new Any).assign(d"char[] test"); // Dynamic
(new Any).assign(s"char[] test"); // Static
(new Any).assign(d[1,2,3]); // Dynamic
(new Any).assign(s[1,2,3]); // Static

Does it work on Windows?

-- 
Regards
Marcin Kuszczak
(Aarti_pl)