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Return a `const` reference to the value of this metric of gauge type. The behavior is undefined unless `true == isGuage()`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlm_metric.h>`

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xref:BloombergLP/bdlm/Metric/Gauge.adoc[Metric::Gauge] const&
theGauge() const;
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