Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:27:38 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix equivalent of a variant?? Message-ID: <20050202142738.GA23548@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20050202140420.GC24058@rtl.org> References: <20050201164337.GA78979@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20050202140420.GC24058@rtl.org>
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On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:04:20AM -0500, Jason Stewart wrote: : > Hey everyone, : > : > I'm finally doing something very exciting here at work: porting software to : > Unix! : > : > I need the equivalent of a variant, however. A hold-everything variable : > that can be any type in C/C++. Is there something already out there I can : > use or should I just roll my own? : > : : Are you porting VB code over to *nix? If that's the case then a better : fit might be Python or Ruby with or without one of the various : bindings for windowing toolkits. I think I'm going to use Python as the test container, but all the component code needs to be C/C++. I think the boost library is exactly what I need. jm --
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