Re: [boost] Exception lib?

From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-21 16:51:48

Emil Dotchevski wrote:

>I came up with a solution which seems to solve the problem, and I wanted to
>see if there is sufficient interest in it to be added to boost.
>
>Essentially, the idea is to decouple all context information, such as file
>names, etc., from the "what went wrong" information. The "what went wrong"
>is indicated exclusively by the type of the exception being thrown (e.g.
>read_error). Any additional information should be independent of that type,
>because in different contexts different information may be relevant, for the
>same type of error.
>  
>
This seems quite a novel approach, and would probably be interesting to 
play around with. Whether it's useful can probably only be determined by 
experimentation.

Sebastian Redl