Re: [boost] [outcome] How to drop the formal empty state

Subject: Re: [boost] [outcome] How to drop the formal empty state
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-05-26 16:19:05

Niall Douglas wrote:

> But you still get exactly that *if* you ask for it:
>
> result<T> function()
> {
>    result<T> r(empty);
>
>    // do things that put something into r
>
>    return r;
> }

Sure, but explicitly asking for it correlates negatively with making the 
logic error of not overwriting it, and there are also C-style arrays to 
consider.