14.3.9.4 Description

These extraction member functions perform a type-safe extraction of a CORBA::Boolean, a CORBA::Char, a CORBA::Octet, a CORBA::Object, or a String reference from an Any. These member functions are helpers nested in the Any class. Their purpose is to distinguish extractions of the OMG IDL types: Boolean, char, and octet (C++ does not require these to be distinct types).