Re: [boost] Re: Boost.Threads draft library submission

From: Eugene Karpachov (jk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-19 06:50:45

Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 03:24:12AM -0800, Jesse Jones ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> >The function could be templated with error-processing policy class. Different
> 
> I don't think this is a good idea. If you did this you would force 
> clients to templatize their classes if they wanted to support 

An implementor could provide reasonable defaults for template arguments.

> customizeable asserts. Better to rely on the preprocessor or function 
> pointers.

Then you would force one default behaviour for all logic errors, and library
user will not be able to change it non-intrusively - for example, by
providing custom "smart log-and-abort" functor.

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jk