Standard library header <experimental/optional>

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Technical Specifications

Standard Library header files

Language Support
<cstddef> <limits> <climits> <contract>	<cfloat> <cstdint> <new> <version>	<typeinfo> <exception> <initializer_list>	<csignal> <csetjmp> <cstdarg>
Concepts
<concepts>
Diagnostics
<stdexcept>	<cassert>	<cerrno>	<system_error>
General utilities
<utility> <memory> <memory_resource> <scoped_allocator> <compare>	<bitset> <tuple> <optional> <any> <variant>	<type_traits> <ratio> <chrono> <typeindex> <functional>	<ctime> <cstdlib>
Strings
<string> <string_view>	<cctype> <cwctype>	<cwchar> <cuchar>	<cstring> <charconv>
Localization
<locale>	<codecvt>	<clocale>
Containers
<span> <array> <vector>	<deque> <forward_list> <list>	<map> <set> <queue>	<unordered_map> <unordered_set> <stack>
Iterators
<iterator>
Algorithms
<algorithm>	<execution>
Numerics
<complex> <random>	<valarray> <numeric>	<cfenv> <cmath>	<bit>
Input/Output
<iosfwd> <ios> <iomanip> <streambuf>	<istream> <ostream> <iostream>	<sstream> <fstream> <syncstream>	<cstdio> <cinttypes> <strstream>
Regular expressions
<regex>
Filesystem support
<filesystem>
Thread support
<thread> <atomic>	<mutex> <shared_mutex>	<condition_variable> <future>
C compatibility
<ciso646> <cstdalign>	<cstdbool> <ccomplex>	<ctgmath>

This header is part of the experimental library.

Classes

Name	Description
optional (library fundamentals TS)	a wrapper that may or may not hold an object (class template)
bad_optional_access (library fundamentals TS)	exception indicating checked access to an optional that doesn't contain a value (class)
in_place_t (library fundamentals TS)	disambiguation tag type for in-place construction of optional types (class)
std::hash<std::experimental::optional>	specializes the std::hash algorithm (class template specialization)
nullopt_t (library fundamentals TS)	indicator of optional type with uninitialized state (class)

Functions

Comparison
operator==operator!=operator<operator<=operator>operator>=	compares optional objects (function template)
Specialized algorithms
std::swap(std::experimental::optional)	specializes the std::swap algorithm (function)
make_optional	creates an optional object (function template)
Hash support

Synopsis

namespace std {
  namespace experimental {
  inline namespace fundamentals_v1 {

    // 5.4, optional for object types
    template <class T> class optional;

    // 5.5, In-place construction
    struct in_place_t{};
    constexpr in_place_t in_place{};

    // 5.6, Disengaged state indicator
    struct nullopt_t{see below};
    constexpr nullopt_t nullopt(unspecified);

    // 5.7, Class bad_optional_access
    class bad_optional_access;

    // 5.8, Relational operators
    template <class T>
      constexpr bool operator==(const optional<T>&, const optional<T>&);
    template <class T>
      constexpr bool operator!=(const optional<T>&, const optional<T>&);
    template <class T>
      constexpr bool operator<(const optional<T>&, const optional<T>&);
    template <class T>
      constexpr bool operator>(const optional<T>&, const optional<T>&);
    template <class T>
      constexpr bool operator<=(const optional<T>&, const optional<T>&);
    template <class T>
      constexpr bool operator>=(const optional<T>&, const optional<T>&);

    // 5.9, Comparison with nullopt
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator==(const optional<T>&, nullopt_t) noexcept;
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator==(nullopt_t, const optional<T>&) noexcept;
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator!=(const optional<T>&, nullopt_t) noexcept;
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator!=(nullopt_t, const optional<T>&) noexcept;
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator<(const optional<T>&, nullopt_t) noexcept;
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator<(nullopt_t, const optional<T>&) noexcept;
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator<=(const optional<T>&, nullopt_t) noexcept;
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator<=(nullopt_t, const optional<T>&) noexcept;
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator>(const optional<T>&, nullopt_t) noexcept;
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator>(nullopt_t, const optional<T>&) noexcept;
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator>=(const optional<T>&, nullopt_t) noexcept;
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator>=(nullopt_t, const optional<T>&) noexcept;

    // 5.10, Comparison with T
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator==(const optional<T>&, const T&);
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator==(const T&, const optional<T>&);
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator!=(const optional<T>&, const T&);
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator!=(const T&, const optional<T>&);
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator<(const optional<T>&, const T&);
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator<(const T&, const optional<T>&);
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator<=(const optional<T>&, const T&);
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator<=(const T&, const optional<T>&);
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator>(const optional<T>&, const T&);
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator>(const T&, const optional<T>&);
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator>=(const optional<T>&, const T&);
    template <class T> constexpr bool operator>=(const T&, const optional<T>&);

    // 5.11, Specialized algorithms
    template <class T> void swap(optional<T>&, optional<T>&) noexcept(see below);
    template <class T> constexpr optional<see below> make_optional(T&&);

  } // namespace fundamentals_v1
  } // namespace experimental

  // 5.12, Hash support
  template <class T> struct hash;
  template <class T> struct hash<experimental::optional<T>>;

} // namespace std