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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-18 11:47:23
Anthony Williams <anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden]> writes:
> How's this for a radical thought --- optional<T> should not be assignable from
> T. That way, it doesn't matter whether T is a reference, or not.
There's at least some precedent for types that are "immutable except
for copy assignment."
The assignment from T is really a kind of mutating operation.
> Instead, to change the binding, use reset(), and to assign use *.
To make that valid for a null optional, I think operator* would have
to return a proxy reference... which is not an altogether bad idea,
IMO.
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