Variant/Variant/Box wrappers?

[Christopher Wright]

Dan wrote:
> Christopher Wright Wrote:
> 
>> Hey --
>>
>> I've got stuff that I want to work in dmd1/phobos, dmd2/phobos, and 
>> dmd1/tango. I really want to use boxing, since it'd make a lot of stuff 
>> easier, but there are three disparate structs to support: tango Variant, 
>> phobos Variant, and phobos Box.
>>
>> Does anyone have wrappers for these? If so, do they handle structs of 
>> arbitrary sizes? (Phobos Variant doesn't, which makes it mostly useless 
>> without a wrapper anyway.)
> 
> The way I did things was I rolled my own.  In all honesty though, if you like the way one works, just use the actual source for it in your project.
> 
> e:/dmd/src/phobos/std/boxer.d
> http://dsource.org/projects/walnut/browser/branches/1.9/source/value.d
> 
> Something like that.  
> 
> Regards,
> Dan

Thanks, though I can't see how yours supports structs.

I think I don't want to maintain any sort of custom box type; I've 
solved the problem with early casting of the stuff that's supposed to 
return variable-typed values.