[#bsl-decay]
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Metafunction to return the variant of the specified parameter `t_TYPE` used for pass‐by‐reference, e.g., by applying array‐to‐pointer and function‐to‐pointer conversion.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslmf_decay.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
template<class t_TYPE>
class decay;
----

== Type Aliases

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|===
| Name| Description
| xref:bsl/decay/type.adoc[`type`] 
| This `typedef` is an alias to the decayed form of `t_TYPE`.
|===


== Derived Classes

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|===
| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bslmf/MovableRefUtil_Decay.adoc[`MovableRefUtil_Decay`] 
| forward declaration
|===


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