Re: [boost] Re: first sight

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-18 11:50:58

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>; <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] Re: first sight

> At 09:33 AM 1/18/2002, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>  >----- Original Message -----
>  >From: "terekhov" <terekhov_at_[hidden]>
>  >
>  >> > Not really. Sometimes, for example at a 'C' API boundary, you
>  >> simply have to
>  >> > use catch(...) so you can prevent an exception from crashing your
>  >> caller.
>  >> > Tom Becker has already pointed that out.
>  >>
>  >> Perhaps Tom Becker or you could clarify this issue a bit more...
>  >> (for slowly thinking people, such as me and a couple of my
>  >> colleagues here)
>  >
>  >If you are writing C++ code that gets called from another language, you
>  >generally can't let an exception propagate out of your outer-level
>  >function.
>  >If you don't happen to know the exception, at least you can report
/some/
>  >error. If you don't catch(...), you will crash your caller unless you
>  >happen to know (a base of) every exception type that can propagate into
>  >your function.
>
> Dave,
>
> While I can understand you not wanting to invest the effort of writing a
> book on exceptions, please consider some other way of transferring your
> knowledge to others.

I've already started collecting all posts I make/have made regarding EH.
That would be a good basis for anything.

> For example, developing your paper
> http://www.boost.org/more/error_handling.html into an exception handling
> FAQ.
>
> The FAQ format seems well suited to organic growth. ("Organic" is a
> euphemism for unorganized growth:-)  You just add to the document as
issues
> arise.  Your answer above gets added under something like "Is catch(...)
> without a rethrow ever appropriate?"
>
> Over time, the document grows into something really worthwhile.  Far more
> valuable that just the sum of the value of its parts.

You're right; I'll do something about it... as soon as I dig myself out of
the schedule hole I'm in.

-Dave

P.S. Please respond to my recent message to boost-owner. This should get
addressed soon.