Re: [boost] [optional] Suggestion for adding an optional_number class

Subject: Re: [boost] [optional] Suggestion for adding an optional_number class
From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-23 04:09:09

On 21 July 2017 at 10:47, Viktor Sehr via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> I'd like to make a suggestion for adding an optional class for number
> types, called optional_number, where the max value of the number type is
> utilized as the uninitalized value.
>

What problem are you trying to solve?

> - Can be assigned to any value except the max value
>

<snip>

- Throws if assigned the numeric_limits<T>::max
>

Seems to me the poison is worse than the disease.

degski
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