X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Heterogenous object container without templates & type casting ??? Followup-To: comp.lang.c++ Date: 12 Feb 2002 10:01:49 GMT Organization: Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de X-Trace: nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE 1013508109 690 137.226.32.75 (12 Feb 2002 10:01:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rwth-aachen DOT de NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Feb 2002 10:01:49 GMT Originator: broeker@ To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com [Note F'up2 of this crosspost reduced to a single group...] In comp.os.msdos.djgpp Traveler wrote: > Is it possible to transform the following C code to C++ so that > there is no need for type-casting ? I am trying to make a general > object class that can contain any type without the use of templates. You're effectively asking for a way of buying a burger without using either money or credit cards. Even though you *have* money. And a valid credit card. And you're standing right in front of a McD* which would be all to happy to sell you one. You have the tools --- use them. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.