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is there any way to use the typeinfo which is returned from typeid
to create a new object of that type?  I have been looking at the
draft, and this doesn't seem to be possible.  The reason that I ask
is that it is very useful when you have a container full of things
to be able to duplicate the container.  If all of the objects
are not of the same type (maybe they are derived classes), then 
it is not easy to duplicate each object.  Currently, my code gets
around this by making a virtual function for each object that needs
to duplicate itself, but I was hoping that there would be a standard
way to do this now that we have RTTI.  Am I the only one who thinks
that this feature would be incredibly useful?

Thanks in advance.
Mike

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Michael Gile                        |               Graduate Assistant
gilem@rpi.edu                       |   Computer & Systems Engineering
"Don't Blame Me, I voted for Perot!"| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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