On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 at 17:17, Victor Khomenko
<victor.khomenko_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Thanks Ville,
>
> >Use a lambda as a visitor and capture the variant in the lambda?
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> 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.

A single lambda can handle every alternative. You can do an
if-constexpr in a polymorphic lambda, and handle different
cases in any way you please.

If you want different functions for different alternatives, write a
function object that provides access to the variant.

I suppose we could add a new visit-function that provides the variant
itself as a parameter to the visitor. I'm not entirely
sure whether that's necessary, because the work-arounds are not that
complicated to write.