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Returns a reference to the underlying value.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<absl/types/optional_ref.h>`

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----
constexpr
T&
value() const;
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== Description

Throws the same error as `std::optional::value()` when empty.

== Return Value

A reference to the referenced value.


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