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 10:07:42
Niall Douglas wrote:
> All valid observations.
>
> Yet SG14 likes anything which relocates latency unpredictable things
> (exception throws, malloc, etc) to the caller. It's certainly how I'd have
> personally designed the STL originally. std::vector's latency insensitive
> design has always irritated me, and I still hope - without much basis -
> that any STL v2 will fix that.
>
> I'm minded to try and deliver SG14 a vocabulary type which can help with
> that so they can propose it for standardisation.
Do you have in mind some outline of how this SG14-friendly, status-based,
vector would look like? A few signatures are fine, no need to list the whole
synopsis, although it's not that much.