Re: [boost] [config] Proposed BOOST_NOEXCEPT_NOTHROW macro

Subject: Re: [boost] [config] Proposed BOOST_NOEXCEPT_NOTHROW macro
From: Stewart, Robert (Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-03 12:37:02

Jeffrey Lee Hellrung wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Dave Abrahams
> <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > on Wed Aug 29 2012, Roland Bock <rbock-AT-eudoxos.de>
> > wrote:
> > > On 2012-08-29 15:31, Beman Dawes wrote:
> > >>
> > >> My thinking was that there was some small advantage to
> > >> beginning each of the noexcept macros with BOOST_NOEXCEPT.
> > >>
> > >> I worry that BOOST_THROWS_NOTHING would be misconstrued
> > >> as a replacement for "Throws: Nothing" specifications, and
> > >> that isn't the case. BOOST_NEVER_THROWS might be a bit
> > >> better. But I think I still prefer
> > >> BOOST_NOEXCEPT_OR_NOTHROW. Or the original suggested
> > >> BOOST_NOEXCEPT_NOTHROW.
> > >
> > > BOOST_NOEXCEPT_AND_NOTHROW ? OR sounds like a choice.
> >
> > Should just be BOOST_NOEXCEPT, IMO.
> > Design for the future.
>
> We already have a BOOST_NOEXCEPT that expands to nothing in
> C++03, right? I understood the point of this proposed macro was
> to support those decorators on virtual functions that were
> "throw ()" in C++03 but got changed to "noexcept(true)" in
> C++11.

There are two cases.  In C++03, some functions had to be
decorated with throw(), but most, even if they didn't throw, were
left with no decoration because throw() is a pain for multiple
reasons.

Beman created BOOST_NOEXCEPT to handle the latter case: a
function that throws, and hopefully is documented as throwing,
nothing becoming noexcept in C++11.  Now he needs a macro that is
noexcept in C++11, but throw() in C++03.

Given that BOOST_NOEXCEPT has already been used for the former,
another name is needed for the latter.

"BOOST_NOTHROW" is short, conveys the right idea, but isn't
forward looking.  Then again, when we can ignore C++03, s/BOOST_NOTHROW/BOOST_NOEXCEPT/ would bring all code into C++11
without harm.

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Rob Stewart                           robert.stewart_at_[hidden]
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