Re: [boost] [review] **NEXT WEEK** Review of Outcome (starts Fri-19-May)

Subject: Re: [boost] [review] **NEXT WEEK** Review of Outcome (starts Fri-19-May)
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-05-14 18:30:34

Niall Douglas wrote:
> On 14/05/2017 16:31, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> >> Documentation:
> >>   https://ned14.github.io/boost.outcome/index.html
> >
> > Why does the library make the types possibly-empty? I couldn't find the 
> > answer in the documentation.
>
> Do you mean empty angle brackets in the make functions? i.e. 
> outcome::make_exceptional_outcome<>()?

No, I mean that the types have an empty state. variant<T...> and expected<T, 
E> don't have one.