Any

Any is a more informative and type-safe version of void pointer. ¹

declaration

All value types can be implicitly cast to type Any.

x : Any = 3.0;
printf("x contains this float: %f\n", *cast(x.value_pointer, ^float));
x = "foo";
printf("now x contains this string: %s\n", *cast(x.value_pointer, ^string));

properties

Any is a type pointer for any type and a void pointer to the value. ²

• type - pointer to a Type_Info struct with specific details about the assigned value type
• value_pointer - void pointer to the value