1<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 2<html><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 3<title>Motivation - Boost.Outcome documentation</title> 4<link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/boost.css" type="text/css"> 5<meta name="generator" content="Hugo 0.52 with Boostdoc theme"> 6<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0"/> 7 8<link rel="icon" href="./images/favicon.ico" type="image/ico"/> 9<body><div class="spirit-nav"> 10<a accesskey="p" href="./build.html"><img src="./images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a> 11 <a accesskey="u" href="./index.html"><img src="./images/up.png" alt="Up"></a> 12 <a accesskey="h" href="./index.html"><img src="./images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="./motivation/exceptions.html"><img src="./images/next.png" alt="Next"></a></div><div id="content"> 13 14 <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 style="clear: both">Motivation</h1></div></div></div> 15<p>This section describes techniques currently used to report and handle failures 16in functions, it also shows why these techniques might be insufficient.</p> 17 18<p>If you just want to learn how to use Outcome library go straight to <a href="./tutorial.html">Tutorial 19section</a>.</p> 20 21<div class="notices note" style="background: url('images/note.png') top left no-repeat padding-box padding-box;"> 22<div class="notices heading">note</div> 23<div class="notices message"><p>Motivation section of this documentation is not complete yet.</p> 24</div> 25</div> 26 27 28<ol class="children children-li"><li> 29 <a href="./motivation/exceptions.html" >Exceptions</a> 30<p>Exceptions with their good and bad sides.</p><li> 31 <a href="./motivation/errno.html" >errno</a> 32<p>errno with their good and bad sides.</p><li> 33 <a href="./motivation/error_codes.html" >Error codes</a> 34<p>Error codes with their good and bad sides.</p><li> 35 <a href="./motivation/std_error_code.html" >std::error_code</a> 36<p>Overview of std::error_code</p><li> 37 <a href="./motivation/plug_error_code.html" >Plugging a library into std::error_code`</a> 38<p>Illustrates how you can hook into the <code>std::error_code</code> system from the Standard Library in order to work with your own set of error codes.</p><li> 39 <a href="./motivation/plug_error_code2.html" >Plugging a library into boost::system::error_code</a> 40<p>Illustrates how you can hook into the <code>boost::system::error_code</code> system from Boost in order to work with your own set of error codes.</p><li> 41 <a href="./motivation/narrow_contract.html" >Narrow contracts</a> 42<p>Describes narrow-contract functions that do not work for all input values, and advantage of using them.</p></li></ol> 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 </div><p><small>Last revised: June 27, 2019 at 16:00:40 +0100</small></p> 52<hr> 53<div class="spirit-nav"> 54<a accesskey="p" href="./build.html"><img src="./images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a> 55 <a accesskey="u" href="./index.html"><img src="./images/up.png" alt="Up"></a> 56 <a accesskey="h" href="./index.html"><img src="./images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="./motivation/exceptions.html"><img src="./images/next.png" alt="Next"></a></div></body> 57</html> 58
