Re: [boost] [review] Review of Outcome v2 (Fri-19-Jan to Sun-28-Jan, 2018)

Subject: Re: [boost] [review] Review of Outcome v2 (Fri-19-Jan to Sun-28-Jan, 2018)
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-01 14:13:22

Gavin Lambert wrote:

> If you don't like the heap usage, the same concept applies if it returns 
> an optional instead of a pointer (assuming it has a no-fail move).

That's a big assumption, because if you had a suitable nofail moved-from 
state, you could just default-initialize to it and no factory or 
private_init_stuff would have been necessary.