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Copy-editing optional documentation. Fixes #5382 and a few other issues I noticed while I was at it.

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Steven Watanabe
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value of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">T</span></code> or nothing.
</p>
<p>
As of this writing I don't know of any precedence for a variable-size fixed-capacity
As of this writing I don't know of any precedent for a variable-size fixed-capacity
(of 1) stack-based container model for optional values, yet I believe this
is the consequence of the lack of practical implementations of such a container
rather than an inherent shortcoming of the container model.
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A relevant feature of a pointer is that it can have a <span class="bold"><strong>null
pointer value</strong></span>. This is a <span class="emphasis"><em>special</em></span> value which
is used to indicate that the pointer is not referring to any object at all.
In other words, null pointer values convey the notion of inexistent objects.
In other words, null pointer values convey the notion of nonexistent objects.
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<p>
This meaning of the null pointer value allowed pointers to became a <span class="emphasis"><em>de
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to do to refer to a value which you don't really have is to use a null pointer
value of the appropriate type. Pointers have been used for decades&#8212;from
the days of C APIs to modern C++ libraries&#8212;to <span class="emphasis"><em>refer</em></span>
to optional (that is, possibly inexistent) objects; particularly as optional
to optional (that is, possibly nonexistent) objects; particularly as optional
arguments to a function, but also quite often as optional data members.
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