From 1d3446304bce7ab730448a3b2fdb78945e06f422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=BCrgen=20Hunold?= <jhunold@gmx.eu>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:38:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add operator<< for boost::none

---
 include/boost/optional/optional_io.hpp |  9 +++++++++
 test/optional_test_io.cpp              | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/boost/optional/optional_io.hpp b/include/boost/optional/optional_io.hpp
index 4c1c610..e7d1a4c 100644
--- a/include/boost/optional/optional_io.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/optional/optional_io.hpp
@@ -23,6 +23,15 @@
 namespace boost
 {
 
+template<class CharType, class CharTrait>
+inline
+std::basic_ostream<CharType, CharTrait>&
+operator<<(std::basic_ostream<CharType, CharTrait>& out, none_t const&)
+{
+    out << "--";
+    return out;
+}
+
 template<class CharType, class CharTrait, class T>
 inline
 std::basic_ostream<CharType, CharTrait>&
diff --git a/test/optional_test_io.cpp b/test/optional_test_io.cpp
index d4ee207..3ed0511 100644
--- a/test/optional_test_io.cpp
+++ b/test/optional_test_io.cpp
@@ -75,12 +75,22 @@ void test( T v, T w )
   test2( optional<T>  () , make_optional(w));
 }
 
+void
+test()
+{
+    stringstream s ;
+    s << boost::none;
+    BOOST_ASSERT(s.str() == "--");
+}
+
+
 int test_main( int, char* [] )
 {
   try
   {
     test(1,2);
     test(string("hello"),string("buffer"));
+    test();
   }
   catch ( ... )
   {