Re: [boost] [variant] Please vote for behavior

Subject: Re: [boost] [variant] Please vote for behavior
From: Larry Evans (cppljevans_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-30 09:55:23

On 01/30/13 04:58, Antony Polukhin wrote:
[snip]
> Now we just need to decide, what a recursive_wrapper is! Is it behave
> like a reference:
> 
> // # 1
> union my_union {
>     my_union& u_;
>     int i_;
> };
> 
> Or is it behave like a pointer:
> 
> // # 2
> union my_union {
>     unique_ptr<my_union> u_;
>     int i_;
> };
> 
> #1 is not what a recursive_wrapper is, because recursive_wrapper OWNS a value
> #2 is much closer to functionality of recursive_wrapper
> 
[snip]
So #2 would be like:

  int
OR
  int*
OR
  int**
.
.
.
  int********....

Is that right?