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: Nevin Liber (nevin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-08 17:56:48

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Rob Stewart via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]
> wrote:

> I think the library could, at least, assert in debug builds when a result
> or outcome is not inspected.
>

That can be problematic.  Suppose you have one that isn't inspected
(because the library you are calling uses outcome for return values) and an
exception is thrown (say, from a different library).  Is it incorrect to
not have inspected it?
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