Re: [boost] [outcome] To variant, or not to variant?

Subject: Re: [boost] [outcome] To variant, or not to variant?
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-01 17:47:03

Robert Ramey wrote:

> Right - so isn't variant the place to "fix" it?  if outcome, expected, 
> optional ... need a never-empty guarantee, should variant (std, boost, 
> whatever) have that guarantee as well?  Shouldn't these discussions take 
> place in the context of variant?

There were prolonged and furious debates on this topic while std::variant 
was getting standardized, and the side who wanted a never-valueless variant 
(that would be me) lost.