Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
Howard Hinnant writes:
On Oct 10, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Fernando Cacciola wrote:
Dubious of use of references.
Does this mean they don't see that as useful or that is not well supported?
I believe there was specific concern about reference rebinding under optional<T&>. There were also several comments that went like: I use optional all the time (gives use case), but I've never needed to use it with reference types.
IIRC, the developers list's archive keeps an extensive discussion of the use cases and possible variants of this functionality.
Indeed. I will collect them, put them in a single doc, and add it to my web site for reference.
General question: what shall I do from now on? Follow the discussions on comp.std.c++?
This is a good question, and I can only give an opinion (as opposed to an authoritative answer).
You might explore a interface here on boost which did not have the pointer interface,
Over my dead body ;). That's the interface we use here at Meta, and to say that our 'boost::optional' usage is extensive would be an understatement. We don't care for 'get', though.
Neither do I really.. that was just an oversight. -- Fernando Cacciola SciSoft http://fcacciola.50webs.com/