Subject: Re: [boost] variant2 never empty guarantees (was: Re: Outcome/expected/etc/etc/etc)
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-06 14:04:19
Andrzej Krzemienski wrote:
> > > Your expectation is reasonable, but (I think) it is incompatible with
> > > other peoples' expectation: provide implementation that gives me
> > > never-empty guarantee when I meet condition Y. ("Y" in that case means
> > > I have a type with nothrow default constructor.)
It's actually "give me single buffer when Y". The aim was to make the
typical variant (that often contains a fallback type by accident) single
buffer.
Surprising pushback against this one. I'll take this feedback into account.