Re: [boost] compilingboostwithoutexceptions(Boost.All,Boost.SmartPtr)

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-09 10:47:04

From: "Jeremy Siek" <jsiek_at_[hidden]>
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Fernando Cacciola wrote:
> fcacci> It's true that users are not supposed to add to namespace boost,
but it is
>
> Dave already said this is not true, but I'd like to emphasize this even
> more. It is a good idea to allow users to add stuff to namespace boost,
> provided what they are adding is overloads to functions, or
> specializations of class templates, that were meant to be overloaded or
> specialized. This is one of the safer ways to provide customization
> points.

Rrrright. Deep water. Don't want to go in. :-)

Anyway, boost_throw is not a customization point for generic code, it is a
replaceable error handler. I'll be happy to comply to whatever the Boost
policy is, whenever there is one, I mean.