Re: [boost] Report from Mont Tremblant C++ Committee meeting

Joel de Guzman wrote:

No. Under the "behave as a reference" model, references should bind only on construction. Everything else is assignment to the referenced object. No rebind.

Cool. This eliminates some problematic cases. But now consider variant<X&, Y> v( x ); v = y; // assigns y to x What if Y == nil? Should v = nil(); assign nil() to x?