Re: [boost] [optional] Making optional more debugger friendly

From: Jeffrey Faust (jefffaust_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-22 20:39:29

Joe Gottman wrote:
>
> If I want to see the result of an optional, I often write code that
> looks like the following:
>
> optional<int> opt;
> /// Time passes...
> if (opt) {
>     const int &i = *opt;
>
>
> Then I can just watch i.  I do the same thing with iterators, especially
> into sets and maps.
>
> Joe Gottman

That's a technique I use, but it's intrusive.  I use boost::optional like  
a value type.  I'd like it to be as transparent to the debugger as the  
type it wraps.  My coworkers have also expressed this issue when I started  
using boost::optional in our code.

Is there anybody out there besides me that would find this useful?  If  
not, I'm happy to drop it.  I can always implement it locally for our own  
use.

Jeff