Re: [boost] [outcome] where is the monadic style tutorial?

Subject: Re: [boost] [outcome] where is the monadic style tutorial?
From: Andrzej Krzemienski (akrzemi1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-01 09:44:17

2017-06-01 11:12 GMT+02:00 Mathias Gaunard via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
:

> Hi,
>
> I just took a quick look at outcome today and I don't really understand
> what it is doing.
>
> I expected to have some kind of mechanism to manage control flow with
> propagation between states only happening if the previous expression in the
> chain resulted in an expected value, like with the Expected monad.
> I searched throughout the documentation and didn't find any.
>
> Why is there no example of this? More than how the error state is captured
> and stored or how to capture custom errors, I believe the programming model
> is what the tutorial should really focus on.
>

It has been agreed upon that the tutorial needs to undergo a rewrite.
Meanwhile, maybe the following examples can help:

https://github.com/akrzemi1/__sandbox__/blob/master/outcome_intro2.md
https://github.com/akrzemi1/__sandbox__/blob/master/outcome_practical_example.md

Regards,
&rzej;