CPP11 — Extraction operator for system exceptions?

currently it is not possible to pull an exception out of an Any generically,
that is, I cannot write:

const CORBA::SystemException * sep;
CORBA::Any a;

// assume a contains a system exception...

a >>= sep;

Normally, I won't need this. However, it's come up as part of portable
interceptors. For example, I might want to write an interceptor that
logs things, including system exceptions. Now, if I have a system exception
in an Any, the only way to get it out is to successively try to extract
every possible system exception until I find one that works.

That's rather tedious. It would be nicer if I could extract a base
pointer to the actual exception, so I can print the minor number and
completion status.

I would like to suggest adding the following extraction operator:

Boolean operator>>=(const SystemException * &);

closed/resolved