Re: [boost] What about "Maybe" ?

OvermindDL1 wrote:

Actually optional is pretty near to being exactly: optional<T> == variant<nil_t,T> And an easier accessor function of course.

Easier *and* faster, since "dereferencing" (via unary operator* or get) only asserts that the optional is initialized, hence doesn't need to access its initialization state bit. As far as I know, Boost.Variant always needs to access its "which" state. - Jeff