Fernando Cacciola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joel de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> There's a lot of experience with it in other languages. Why not leverage >> that? Haskell::Maybe for instance. >> > Do you know of anything else besides Haskell? No. > I don't, and I took the time to investigate Maybe looking at Haskell > programs using it. > As Brian pointed out, it is not so easy to port Maybe to C++ because > its usage is extensively supported by Haskell features that are > not present in C++. > The most fundamental point is that being Haskell a pure functional > language there is no possibly undefined behaviour to worry about, > so Maybe doesn't need to address this issue as optional<> does. Agreed. -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
