Re: [boost] Re: Review: Boost Test Library

From: Jens Maurer (Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-02-13 17:16:38

williamkempf_at_[hidden] wrote:
> I've been thinking a bit about the desire for catch_exceptions() to
> be able to handle "registered" exception types 

[ Lots of explanation removed. ]

> Any thoughts or comments on the idea?

This looks interesting.  However, I believe we should consider
this only after having initially released the boost test library
and after someone actually writing tests comes up with a need for
it.  Usually, I'd expect the ex.what() string to be sufficiently
descriptive.  Except for some standard library implementations where
std::bad_alloc::what() is always the empty string.  But we do handle
all standard exceptions explicitly already, so that point is moot.

Jens Maurer