Right, duplicating every method that allocates also isn't very elegant. But could Box and containers be polymorphic on an OOM handling trait? Alternatively, o

Right, duplicating every method that allocates also isn't very elegant. But could Box and containers be polymorphic on an OOM handling trait? Alternatively, one could imagine an OOM-safe container that returns results, and a convenience wrapper class that unwraps them. That might harm efficient code generation though.