Re: [boost] Re: Optional, tie, and iterator_adaptor

From: Joel de Guzman (djowel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-31 20:03:17

David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> "Joel de Guzman" <djowel_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> What I am trying very hard to say is to stick to only *ONE* interface
>> and one concept.
> 
> Optional is a container.  I've never seen a container in C++ which didn't
> have both a value interface and an element-access interface.  How do
> you propose to achieve that with optional?

Do it the ref, tuple and variant way: get(). But get(), as an element-access interface, 
should return a reference, not a pointer, as it does currently.

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