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# 22 General utilities library [[utilities]](./#utilities)

## 22.7 Storage for any type [[any]](any#general)

### 22.7.1 General [any.general]

[1](#1)

[#](http://github.com/Eelis/draft/tree/9adde4bc1c62ec234483e63ea3b70a59724c745a/source/utilities.tex#L7020)

Subclause [[any]](any "22.7 Storage for any type") describes components that C++ programs may use to perform operations on objects of a discriminated type[.](#1.sentence-1)

[2](#2)

[#](http://github.com/Eelis/draft/tree/9adde4bc1c62ec234483e63ea3b70a59724c745a/source/utilities.tex#L7023)

[*Note [1](#note-1)*:

The discriminated type can contain values of different types but does not attempt conversion between them,
i.e., 5 is held strictly as an int and is not implicitly convertible either to "5" or to 5.0[.](#2.sentence-1)

This indifference to interpretation but awareness of type effectively allows safe, generic containers of single values, with no scope for surprises from ambiguous conversions[.](#2.sentence-2)

— *end note*]