Re: [capy] Andrzej's feedback

Peter Dimov via Boost <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Jul 2026 17:15:20 +0300

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Steve Gerbino wrote:
> I don't think I'm alone in this opinion. There is actually a paper P1028 that
> describes this idea. I also believe Boost's error_code provides a query to
> determine if the code actually indicates a failure, which further validates the
> line of thought.

It does. I also proposed that for std::error_code,

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p1198r0.html

but it wasn't accepted as it would have been an ABI break.

Windows COM HRESULT codes and HTTP status codes allow nonzero alternate
success.


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