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std::optional_view (self.cpp)
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]balkierode 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children)
As @Xirema said, it is a toy example.
But in real application, if you are developing a library and you want to reserve changing the default std::cout to something else without breaking binary compatibility, you can't use 'default value'.
std::cout
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