storing pointers in Variants

[Matt via Digitalmars-d-learn]

I am trying to create a class that can do the following:

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int sample = 42;

// myObj is an instance of the class I'm writing
myObj.attach ("othername", sample);

myObj.set ("othername", 69);

writeln (myObj.get ("othername"), "\t", sample); // should 
produce '69  69'

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Currently, my class appends to an array of Variants, and can 
store data internally in this array. Ref parameters don't work 
with variants, and pointers cause exceptions to be thrown. What 
would be the best way to go about this?

I had momentarily considered using a struct that stores a void 
pointer to the data, along with type info, and using this to 
replace the Variant, but I like the ability to change the type at 
runtime.

Any advice would be much appreciated.