Non-ignorable return codes

I'd like to have a nonignorable-type that could be used to wrap return values that must be handled, but using an exception would be to heavy-weight. Consider: bool IntersectLineAndPlane(...); I'd like to say nonignorable<bool> IntersectLineAndPlane(...); And then have code that doesn't handle the return value give a compile-time error (or warning) so that mistakes don't slip through into production code. You would think that perhaps something like this would work:

template <typename T>
class nonignorable {
  public:
      nonignorable(const T& v) : value_(v) {}

      // check() does the destruction and extracts the value
      friend T check(const nonignorable<T>&);

 private:
     ~nonignorable();
};

This could be used as:

nonignorable<bool> Function() {
 return nonignorable(false);
}

And in client code: if (!check(Function)) { /* take action */ } Alas, this will not work, because there are more destructions going on when the nonignorable instance is returned on the stack. I think the only way to solve this is to rely on the new C++0x proposition to add move semantics into the language so that there is only one destruction (in the check() template function).