On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Benjamin Hindman <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> > On Sept. 11, 2012, 9:32 p.m., Benjamin Hindman wrote:
> > > This definitely needs to get done, so I'm stoked you took it on!
> However, this is the kind of thing I think merits some discussion (before
> unnecessary work is done ... sorry). In particular, I had created
> 'Try<void>' some time ago for this exact reason, but didn't use it after
> thinking we might want to use 'Try<Nothing>' instead. Here were the pros I
> saw to using 'Try<void>':
> > >
> > > + It captures the "void" return type well. ;)
> > > + We can eliminate 'Try<void>::get' so that people can't even attempt
> to get something that doesn't exist (although, a 'get' on a Try<Nothing>
> returns an object that you can't really do anything with, so it's very
> harmless).
> > >
> > > However, there were also cons:
> > >
> > > - The 'Try<void>' implementation is mostly duplicated code.
> > > - You have to do 'return Try<void>::some();' which doesn't read as
> nice as it could (at least, not as nice as 'return Nothing();').
> > > - To do the same thing for Result and Future will require lots of
> duplicated code, which is at least a non-starter for Future and thus we'll
> probably always be using Future<Nothing> for asynchronous cases (and it
> seems much cleaner to be consistent).
> > >
> > > For these reasons, I was slightly more inclined towards
> 'Try<Nothing>'. Naturally, I'd love to hear others thoughts!
> >
> > Ben Mahler wrote:
> >     You've brought up some good points, I would agree with killing
> Try<void> entirely and switching this to do Try<Nothing> instead, does that
> sound good?
> >
> >     What I originally wanted was just non-templatized Try instead of
> Try<void>, but again that requires the duplicated code and likely returning
> a messy Try::some() rather than  Nothing().
>
> Well, Try<Nothing> is my vote, so if nobody else has any input, I say go
> for it.
>

I asked for the same (for the same resaons) a few month ago in review and
would be very happy to see Nothing.


>
>
> - Benjamin
>
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> On Sept. 11, 2012, 5:05 p.m., Ben Mahler wrote:
> >
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> > https://reviews.apache.org/r/7001/
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> >
> > (Updated Sept. 11, 2012, 5:05 p.m.)
> >
> >
> > Review request for mesos, Benjamin Hindman, Vinod Kone, and Jie Yu.
> >
> >
> > Description
> > -------
> >
> > We unnecessarily have Try<bool>s all over the place, these are
> tri-state: {error, some:true, some:false}. It seems most cases, we never
> use {some:false} in the function or the caller.
> >
> > So, this restores some sanity to use two-state Try<void>s: {error, some}
> >
> >
> > Diffs
> > -----
> >
> >   src/linux/cgroups.hpp 1a3cdc2
> >   src/linux/cgroups.cpp 53d611f
> >   src/linux/fs.hpp 31a6100
> >   src/linux/fs.cpp 744aea6
> >   src/logging/logging.cpp d6d31ec
> >   src/slave/cgroups_isolation_module.hpp 00255b5
> >   src/slave/cgroups_isolation_module.cpp 8a121e0
> >   src/slave/gc.hpp 3760d09
> >   src/slave/gc.cpp 5212a41
> >   src/slave/process_based_isolation_module.cpp c0576bd
> >   src/slave/slave.cpp 4ea1db1
> >   src/tests/cgroups_tests.cpp fbaa046
> >   src/tests/configurator_tests.cpp 8baed76
> >   src/tests/files_tests.cpp 6ef2004
> >   src/tests/stout_tests.cpp f690fac
> >   src/tests/zookeeper_server.hpp 4f34910
> >   src/webui/webui.cpp d4f2ab9
> >   third_party/libprocess/include/stout/os.hpp 602db1f
> >   third_party/libprocess/src/process.cpp 2d2b56c
> >
> > Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/7001/diff/
> >
> >
> > Testing
> > -------
> >
> > osx 10.7 gcc 4.2.1
> > redhat Red Hat 4.1.2-48 gcc 4.1.2
> >
> > make
> > make check
> >
> > note that SampleFrameworks.PythonFramework is consistently failing on
> red hat, unrelated to this change
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ben Mahler
> >
> >
>
>


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