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Assign to this object the value of the specified `rhs` object, and return a non‐`const` reference to this object.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_optional.h>`

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operator=(xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/Optional_Base-05.adoc[Optional_Base] const& rhs);
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