id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
5768,any_cast,a.khawaldeh@…,Antony Polukhin,"assume we have a class Base, and other class Derived that inherits Base.

I can write 
{{{
boost::any a = new Derived;
}}}
so, the following code
{{{
Derived* d = any_cast<Derived*>(a);
}}}
will work good, but!! 
{{{
Base* b = any_cast<Base*>(a);
}}}
will fail.

i.e boost::any_cast could not work with inheritance and polymorphism.

You may wonder why this is needed? but I did faced this case.

I solved this problem in '''boost::any''' on my machine, and I thought to share this with others, so if this sounds useful to you, please tell me how can I add my code to boost

many thanks.
",Bugs,closed,To Be Determined,any,Boost 1.47.0,Problem,wontfix,,