expectations 0.1.0

[Paul Backus]

On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 23:38:41 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 06:59:20 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>> expectations is an error-handling library that lets you bundle 
>> exceptions together with return values. It is based on Rust's 
>> Result<T, E> [1] and C++'s proposed std::expected. [2] If 
>> you're not familiar with those, Andrei's NDC Oslo talk, 
>> "Expect the Expected" [3], explains the advantages of this 
>> approach to error handling in considerable detail.
>
> Incidentally, I've already proposed `Expected` into Phobos 
> std.experimental.typecons here
>
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6686
>
> Is it ok if I try to merge your effort into this pull request?

I don't think expectations has reached a high enough level of 
quality yet to be ready for inclusion in Phobos. However, if 
you'd like to submit it for comments as a WIP, or use it as a 
reference for your own implementation, that's completely fine, 
and I'd be happy to help you.