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  <span class="firstname">Kevlin</span> <span class="surname">Henney</span>
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  <p>There are times when a generic (in the sense of
      <span class="emphasis"><em>general</em></span> as opposed to
      <span class="emphasis"><em>template-based programming</em></span>) type is needed:
      variables that are truly variable, accommodating values of many
      other more specific types rather than C++'s normal strict and
      static types. We can distinguish three basic kinds of generic
      type:</p>
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  <li class="listitem"><p>Converting types that can hold one of a number of
          possible value types, e.g. <code class="computeroutput">int</code> and
          <code class="computeroutput">string</code>, and freely convert between them, for
          instance interpreting <code class="computeroutput">5</code> as <code class="computeroutput">"5"</code> or
          vice-versa.  Such types are common in scripting and other
          interpreted
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          <code class="computeroutput">boost::lexical_cast</code>
          supports such conversion functionality.</p></li>
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          Discriminated types that contain values of different types but
          do not attempt conversion between them, i.e. <code class="computeroutput">5</code> is
          held strictly as an <code class="computeroutput">int</code> and is not implicitly
          convertible either to <code class="computeroutput">"5"</code> or to
          <code class="computeroutput">5.0</code>. Their indifference to interpretation but
          awareness of type effectively makes them safe, generic
          containers of single values, with no scope for surprises from
          ambiguous conversions.</p></li>
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          Indiscriminate types that can refer to anything but are
          oblivious to the actual underlying type, entrusting all forms
          of access and interpretation to the programmer. This niche is
          dominated by <code class="computeroutput">void *</code>, which offers plenty of scope
          for surprising, undefined behavior.</p></li>
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      (based on the class of the same name described in <a href="http://www.two-sdg.demon.co.uk/curbralan/papers/ValuedConversions.pdf" target="_top">"Valued
      Conversions"</a> by Kevlin Henney, <span class="emphasis"><em>C++
      Report</em></span> 12(7), July/August 2000) is a variant value type
      based on the second category. It supports copying of any value
      type and safe checked extraction of that value strictly against
      its type. A similar design, offering more appropriate operators,
      can be used for a generalized function adaptor,
      <code class="computeroutput">any_function</code>, a generalized iterator adaptor,
      <code class="computeroutput">any_iterator</code>, and other object types that need
      uniform runtime treatment but support only compile-time template
      parameter conformance.</p>
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