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29 /// \file utils/optional.hpp
30 /// Provides the utils::optional class.
32 /// The class is provided as a separate module on its own to minimize
33 /// header-inclusion side-effects.
35 #if !defined(UTILS_OPTIONAL_HPP)
36 #define UTILS_OPTIONAL_HPP
47 /// Internal type-safe representation for the none type.
56 /// This has internal linkage so it is OK to define it in the header file.
57 /// However, pointers to none from different translation units will be
58 /// different. Just don't do that.
59 const detail::none_t none
= {};
62 /// Holds a data value or none.
64 /// This class allows users to represent values that may be uninitialized.
65 /// Instead of having to keep separate variables to track whether a variable is
66 /// supposed to have a value or not, this class allows multiplexing the
69 /// This class is a simplified version of Boost.Optional.
72 /// Internal representation of the optional data value.
77 optional(utils::detail::none_t
);
78 optional(const optional
< T
>&);
79 explicit optional(const T
&);
82 optional
& operator=(utils::detail::none_t
);
83 optional
& operator=(const T
&);
84 optional
& operator=(const optional
< T
>&);
86 bool operator==(const optional
< T
>&) const;
87 bool operator!=(const optional
< T
>&) const;
89 operator bool(void) const;
91 const T
& get(void) const;
92 const T
& get_default(const T
&) const;
98 std::ostream
& operator<<(std::ostream
&, const optional
< T
>&);
102 optional
< T
> make_optional(const T
&);
108 #endif // !defined(UTILS_OPTIONAL_HPP)