On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 10:33 AM Christian Mazakas via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
...we don't actually know if people are even going to use this kind of construct in the first place and it's just way easier to add try_find to e.g. `boost::unordered_flat_map` and call it a day.
If users buy into the construct and they want the free function version, they'll let us know.
I think this is exactly backwards. Adding a member function to decide if "users buy into the construct" means that if we later observe that users aren't buying in, then we are either stuck with a useless member function or worse we have to break existing code. If we want field experience, it is better to implement it as a separate free function to figure out buy-in and then later consider adding it as a member function. Thanks