Subject: Re: [boost] [outcome v2] Please comment on new result<T, EC> reference API docs
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-23 09:55:03
degski wrote:
> On 23 June 2017 at 03:25, Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
> > For one, vector functions that grow the size typically return void. So
> > you could just turn that into bool or an enum and you'd be done.
>
> Maybe pop_back() could be made to return the popped element instead of
> void.
pop_back doesn't grow the size. It never needs to reallocate. As for why it
doesn't return the element, because copying it may throw.