about the name, what about changing from 'Nothing' to 'None'?

// Like that in python: True, False, None

- Jie

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:27 PM, John Sirois <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Benjamin Hindman <[email protected]
> > wrote:
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>> It should not be easier via C++11, no.
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> He's alive!  No tree parts sticking out?
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>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Vinod Kone <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > 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:
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>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> 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
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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/
>> > >> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> > >>
>> > >> (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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