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: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-04 01:13:32

>> This is one of the applications of boost.Outcome. It is superior to naked
>> std::error_code because it can additionally guarantee that no failure is
>> accidentally ignored by the programmer.
> 
> If all Outcome did was transport values, error_code and exception_ptr, I'd
> support it.

Last review it was widely agreed that being able to transport arbitrary
payload with error_code was a desirable thing. I appreciate that you're
not the whole community Emil, but that's the feedback I was given last
review, and this library implements what the community asked for last
time we were here.

Niall

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