In Data type any you have seen the data type any. Because the value of type any can not be assigned to a variable of any other type. FIXME. So it is importnat to check its type with is(...) and then re-assigning it to a variable of the correct type. The following example shows how this should be done.

//
// Hypothetical example:
// ---------------------
// We don't know whether the SCR will return integers or floats...
//
any     any_var   = 0;
integer int_var   = 0;
float   float_var = 0.0;
boolean int_case  = false;

any_var = SCR::Read(...);

if ( is( any_var, integer ) )
{
   int_var  = any_var;
   int_case = true;
}
else if ( is( any_var, float ) )
{
   float_var = any_var;
   int_case  = false;
}
else
{
   // Error...
}

if ( int_case )
{
   // Use int_var...
}
else
{
   // Use float_var...
}
          

As this is very cumbersome, you should try to avoid this oddity in any case. If it is ineluctable, do it as shown above to stay compatible with future YaST behaviour.