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`description` overloads

== Synopses

Declared in `&lt;balm&lowbar;metricid&period;h&gt;`

Return a reference to the modifiable address of the _held_ non&hyphen;modifiable `MetricDescription`, which defines the value of this metric id&period;


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Return a reference to the non&hyphen;modifiable address of the _held_ non&hyphen;modifiable `MetricDescription`, which defines the value of this metric id&period;


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xref:BloombergLP/balm/MetricDescription.adoc[MetricDescription] const const*&
xref:BloombergLP/balm/MetricId/description-0d.adoc[description]() const;
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== Return Value

* modifiable reference to the held metric&hyphen;description address
* const reference to the held metric&hyphen;description address


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