Re: [boost] [outcome] Purpose of value_type_if_enabled?

Subject: Re: [boost] [outcome] Purpose of value_type_if_enabled?
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-01-27 19:53:36

On 27/01/2018 17:11, Bjorn Reese via Boost wrote:
> Are value_type_if_enabled and error_type_if_enabled supposed to be used
> by the library users? If so, how?

Purely a "self documenting typedef" there to remind the API reader that
that overload becomes unavailable if there is any ambiguity between
value and error types. This technique lets me avoid SFINAE around the
in_place_type<T> overloads, saving some compile time load.

Niall

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