Is it possible to move a boost::optional?

Question

I\'ve been trying to define a defaulted move constructor in a class with a boost::optional member variable.

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Answer 1

It's not clear how high on the agenda C++11 feature support for boost::optional is.

I found a nice fellow on the Internet who gave me some of his own code under a boost license...which is still undergoing some tweaks. It's at a point where it works for me. Maybe it will help anyone looking at this question:

https://github.com/hostilefork/CopyMoveConstrainedOptional

There is also a larger group effort to define a std::optional which has been going on...but their reference implementation wasn't able to handle some of the cases I had:

http://kojot.sggw.waw.pl/~akrzemi1/optional/tr2.optional.proposal.html