Igor R. wrote:
The reason I wanted to test if the variant contains its 1st type is the following: my variant is made of a list of shared-pointers to various types; there's a routine that initializes it with one of the types depending on some conditions, then it applies some visitor on the resulting variant and stores it then in a container - however, there's no "default" behavior, so if neither condition was met, the variant remains "uninitialized" - i.e. it contains 1st type "zero" ptr. I want neither apply the visitor on "empty" smartpointer nor store it in the container, so I have to know whether it was "really" created or not.
Um, wrap the variant in boost::optional?