Thanks Ville,

>Use a lambda as a visitor and capture the variant in the lambda?

This won't work if the visitor requires very different processing for different Alternatives. My proposed workaround with a pointer in a visitor is similar to what you suggest, but your solution is restricted to the case when a single lambda can handle every alternative.

Victor.


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> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 at 17:07, Victor Khomenko via Std-Discussion <std-
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> > Dear all,
> >
> > [I searched the list's archive but didn't find anything relevant.]
> >
> > Problem: How to change the value of a variant from within a visitor?
> Unfortunately, there is no straightforward way to do that, as the relevant
> operator()(Alternative&) of the visitor has no access to the enclosing
> std::variant.
>
> Use a lambda as a visitor and capture the variant in the lambda?