On Tuesday, 4 July 2023 11:01:42 PDT Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 4, 2023, Frederick Virchanza Gotham wrote:
> > Well maybe they could all be static functions instead of member
> >
> > functions.
>
> Or another possibility:
>
> You must use 'std::direct' to access the holder object. For example:
>
> std::optional_direct<T> obj;
>
> std::direct(obj).emplace("monkey", 5);

You do realise this is exactly why those papers have not made progress, right?

BTW, have you drafted any papers of your ideas in the last 6 months? There
were a few that seemed promising.

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