On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org> wrote:

The example is a bit silly, since foreach discards the return value of
apply_visitor anyway. So my solution was to change the visitor to
define result_type as void. This works. However, I am wondering why
delayed_visitor does no longer work in this situation? Is it because I
am trying to return a reference?

I believe this is caused by a bug in the trait used to detect whether result_type is present. It used to form a pointer to result_type,

and pointer to references are ill-formed, so the trait reports that result_type doesn't exist, and then the overloads of apply_visitor

do not SFINAE correctly.

The bug has been fixed in https://github.com/boostorg/variant/commit/aad58b5fe5b2605bf752c8151ae0539df98223f9.

Tim