22 General utilities library [utilities]

22.6 Variants [variant]

22.6.7 Visitation [variant.visit]

template<class Visitor, class... Variants> constexpr see below visit(Visitor&& vis, Variants&&... vars); template<class R, class Visitor, class... Variants> constexpr R visit(Visitor&& vis, Variants&&... vars);
Let as-variant denote the following exposition-only function templates: template<class... Ts> auto&& as-variant(variant<Ts...>& var) { return var; } template<class... Ts> auto&& as-variant(const variant<Ts...>& var) { return var; } template<class... Ts> auto&& as-variant(variant<Ts...>&& var) { return std::move(var); } template<class... Ts> auto&& as-variant(const variant<Ts...>&& var) { return std::move(var); }
Let n be sizeof...(Variants).
For each , let denote the type
decltype(as-variant(std​::​forward<>())).
Constraints: is a valid type for all .
Let V denote the pack of types .
Let m be a pack of n values of type size_t.
Such a pack is valid if
for all .
For each valid pack m, let e(m) denote the expression: INVOKE(std::forward<Visitor>(vis), get<m>(std::forward<V>(vars))...) // see [func.require] for the first form and INVOKE<R>(std::forward<Visitor>(vis), get<m>(std::forward<V>(vars))...) // see [func.require] for the second form.
Mandates: For each valid pack m, e(m) is a valid expression.
All such expressions are of the same type and value category.
Returns: e(m), where m is the pack for which is as-variant(vars).index() for all .
The return type is decltype(e(m)) for the first form.
Throws: bad_variant_access if (as-variant(vars).valueless_by_exception() || ...) is true.
Complexity: For n  ≤ 1, the invocation of the callable object is implemented in constant time, i.e., for , it does not depend on the number of alternative types of .
For , the invocation of the callable object has no complexity requirements.