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`description` overloads

== Synopses

Declared in `<balm_metricid.h>`

Return a reference to the modifiable address of the _held_ non‐modifiable `MetricDescription`, which defines the value of this metric id.


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xref:BloombergLP/balm/MetricDescription.adoc[MetricDescription] const*&
xref:BloombergLP/balm/MetricId/description-03.adoc[description]();
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Return a reference to the non‐modifiable address of the _held_ non‐modifiable `MetricDescription`, which defines the value of this metric id.


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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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