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      <year>2007</year>
      <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
    </copyright>
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    <title>any</title>
    <prepared></prepared>
    <docno></docno>
    <checked></checked>
    <date>1998-04-20</date>
    <rev>A</rev>
  </header>
  <module>any</module>
  <modulesummary>the corba any type</modulesummary>
  <description>
    <p>This module contains functions that gives an interface to the CORBA any type.</p>
    <p>Note that the <c>any</c> interface in orber does not contain a destroy 
      function because the any type is represented as an Erlang record and 
      therefor will be removed by the garbage collector when not in use.</p>
    <p>The type <c>TC</c> used below describes an IDL type and is a tuple according 
      to the to the Erlang language mapping.</p>
    <p>The type <c>Any</c> used below is defined as:</p>
    <code type="none">
      -record(any, {typecode, value}).
    </code>
    <p>where <c>typecode</c> is a TC tuple and <c>value</c> is an Erlang term of 
      the type defined by the typecode field.</p>
  </description>
  <funcs>
    <func>
      <name>create() -> Result</name>
      <name>create(Typecode, Value) -> Result</name>
      <fsummary>Create an any record</fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>Typecode = TC</v>
        <v>Value = term()</v>
        <v>Result = Any</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>The create/0 function creates an empty any record and the create/2 
          function creates an initialized record.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name>set_typecode(A, Typecode) -> Result</name>
      <fsummary>Set the typecode field</fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>A = Any</v>
        <v>Typecode = TC</v>
        <v>Result = Any</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>This function sets the typecode of <em>A</em> and returns a 
          new any record.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name>get_typecode(A) -> Result</name>
      <fsummary>Fetch the typecode</fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>A = Any</v>
        <v>Result = TC</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>This function returns the typecode of <em>A</em>.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name>set_value(A, Value) -> Result</name>
      <fsummary>Set the value field</fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>A = Any</v>
        <v>Value = term()</v>
        <v>Result = Any</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>This function sets the value of <em>A</em> and returns a 
          new any record.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name>get_value(A) -> Result</name>
      <fsummary>Fetch the value</fsummary>
      <type>
        <v>A = Any</v>
        <v>Result = term()</v>
      </type>
      <desc>
        <p>This function returns the value of <em>A</em>.
          </p>
      </desc>
    </func>
  </funcs>
  
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