Re: [boost] std::optional<T>

Subject: Re: [boost] std::optional<T>
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-22 11:09:06

On 22/04/2013 15:05, Fernando Cacciola wrote:
> On 22-Apr-13 9:37 AM, Nathan Crookston wrote:
>> Fernando Cacciola wrote:
>>
>>> Hi People,
>>>
>>> I'm pleased to announce that thanks to the outstanding effort of Andrzej
>>> Krzemienski who wrote the standard papers, and Ville Voutilainen who
>>> champion it during the meetings, we now have std::optional<T> in C++14!
>>>
>>
>> Great news!  I'm almost scared to ask, but what did the committee decide
>> concerning optional<T&>?
>>
> LOL, I knew people would ask.
> Well, they decided to drop it from C++14.

That's not what I remember.

I thought that what was said is that optional<T&> didn't need to be 
specialized, the specification without it was good enough to allow it.