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

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.