Re: [boost] Runtime error reporting

From: Kevlin Henney (kevlin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-20 01:30:50

In message <02dc01c0b0ff$0a6bf450$37781990_at_[hidden]>, Greg Colvin
<gcolvin_at_[hidden]> writes
>Let me suggest the following idiom as a reasonable way to report
>fatal runtime errors:
>
>   template <typename X>
>      void error(const X& x) throw() {
>         throw x;
>      }
>
>Yes, it looks silly.  But it will force a call to unexpected(),
>which by default will terminate(), and the client can replace
>the default behavior via the standard set_unexpected() facility.

As indeed a straight call to std::unexpected will do. What am I missing?

Kevlin
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