Fernando Cacciola writes:
So my current proposal would be:
Remove direct-assignment.
Ouch. Personally, I think that in the race to satisfy the conflicting forces in the marginal number of use cases we are throwing the baby along with the water. Here at Meta we use optional very extensively, we never had a use case for holding a reference, and we use direct assignment very often. In fact, I consider it to be an essential element in the consistency of the current interface, which we found to be very intuitive and easy to explain, adopt and use across our teams. IMO there have to be strong reasons to override this kind of experience reports and radically rework the class interface, and for me none of the argumentation that led to the current state of discussion seemed to provide these reasons. -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering