On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Benjamin Hindman
<[email protected]>wrote:

> It should not be easier via C++11, no.
>

He's alive!  No tree parts sticking out?


>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Vinod Kone <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Is going the void route gonna be easier with c++11? If yes, I would
> prefer
> > void over Nothing.
> >
> > @vinodkone
> > Sent from my mobile
> >
> > On Sep 11, 2012, at 7:15 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > - Benjamin
> > >
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------
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> > > https://reviews.apache.org/r/7001/#review11357
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sept. 11, 2012, 5:05 p.m., Ben Mahler wrote:
> > >>
> > >> -----------------------------------------------------------
> > >> This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit:
> > >> https://reviews.apache.org/r/7001/
> > >> -----------------------------------------------------------
> > >>
> > >> (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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