Re: [boost] Review Request: Boost Exception

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-14 13:38:43

David Abrahams wrote:
> "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>> "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Moving the catch clause to a destructor doesn't seem an improvement
>>>> to me.
>>> 
>>> Using a catch clause to add information to a propagating exception
>>> feels syntactically heavy to me, but of course others may disagree.
>>> And it may also be that without language support, there's not
>>> really a good way to avoid that weight.  I'm just expressing an
>>> aesthetic preference here.
>> 
>> Won't you need to prepare all the extra information even if nothing
>> throws? 
> 
> No, you could do it lazily.

I'm afraid that I need to be shown an example in order to "get it". :-)