template< class T >
class optional;
The class template std::experimental::optional
manages an optional contained value, i.e. a value that may or may not be present.
A common use case for optional
is the return value of a function that may fail. As opposed to other approaches, such as std::pair<T,bool>, optional
handles expensive to construct objects well and is more readable, as the intent is expressed explicitly.
Any instance of optional<T>
at any given point in time either contains a value or does not contain a value.
If an optional<T>
contains a value, the value is guaranteed to be allocated as part of the optional
object footprint, i.e. no dynamic memory allocation ever takes place. Thus, an optional
object models an object, not a pointer, even though the operator*() and operator->() are defined.
When an object of type optional<T> is contextually converted to bool, the conversion returns true if the object contains a value and false if it does not contain a value.
The optional
object contains a value in the following conditions:
T
.optional
that contains a value.The object does not contain a value in the following conditions:
optional
object that does not contain a value.optional
that does not contain a value.value_type
T
[edit] Member functions constructs the optional object
val
(private) pointer to the contained value (which points at a data member of the same object), the name is for exposition only [edit] Non-member functions [edit] Helper classes [edit] Helper objects
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