Re: [boost] Outcome v2

Subject: Re: [boost] Outcome v2
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-12 00:10:12

On 12/07/2017 11:52, Peter Dimov wrote:
>> Having said that, this would basically render it impossible to have 
>> value + exception *without* an error_code.
> 
> Why would one ever want that?

People using expected<T, exception_ptr>, for one.

Perhaps those people are out of scope for Outcome, though.

But as long as those people are allowed to pretend that error_codes 
don't exist (ie. it picks an appropriate non-default error code for any 
exception) then they probably won't care.