Re: [boost] [outcome] To variant, or not to variant?

On 6/1/17 3:54 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:

Niall Douglas wrote:

I wanted to write expected so that we have something concrete to discuss regarding standardization, and for that, I needed a never-valueless variant, which is also something that I would rather see in the standard at some point, preferably instead of the current one.

I think we spend too much time thinking about the standard. Let us focus on getting it right, getting it out there, getting people to use it, getting feedback on it, making sure there is a version available that is maintained, making sure it's well documented and plays well with everything else. Let the standards committee spend their time catching up to us. This has worked well in the past and I believe will continue to work best. I'm 69 years old as I write this. I could be dead before the it's all standardized. Robert Ramey