22 General utilities library [utilities]

22.8 Expected objects [expected]

22.8.3 Class template unexpected [expected.unexpected]

22.8.3.1 General [expected.un.general]

Subclause [expected.unexpected] describes the class template unexpected that represents unexpected objects stored in expected objects.
namespace std { template<class E> class unexpected { public: // [expected.un.cons], constructors constexpr unexpected(const unexpected&) = default; constexpr unexpected(unexpected&&) = default; template<class Err = E> constexpr explicit unexpected(Err&&); template<class... Args> constexpr explicit unexpected(in_place_t, Args&&...); template<class U, class... Args> constexpr explicit unexpected(in_place_t, initializer_list<U>, Args&&...); constexpr unexpected& operator=(const unexpected&) = default; constexpr unexpected& operator=(unexpected&&) = default; constexpr const E& error() const & noexcept; constexpr E& error() & noexcept; constexpr const E&& error() const && noexcept; constexpr E&& error() && noexcept; constexpr void swap(unexpected& other) noexcept(see below); template<class E2> friend constexpr bool operator==(const unexpected&, const unexpected<E2>&); friend constexpr void swap(unexpected& x, unexpected& y) noexcept(noexcept(x.swap(y))); private: E unex; // exposition only }; template<class E> unexpected(E) -> unexpected<E>; }
A program that instantiates the definition of unexpected for a non-object type, an array type, a specialization of unexpected, or a cv-qualified type is ill-formed.