Re: [boost] Smart Pointers documentation/questions

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-17 19:50:28

At 04:59 PM 9/17/2002, Peter Dimov wrote:

 >Part of the problem is that we are writing both an interface and an
 >implementation. It would be unwise to couple the interface to the 
(current)
 >implementation. We can't adopt 17.4.4.8's wording, though, as it says 
that
 >functions may throw implementation-defined exceptions unless otherwise
 >specified. "Implementation defined" means that we must document the exact
 >exception types since we are the implementors!
 >
 >I think that we should consider imposing a boost-wide "Chapter 17" saying
 >that functions may throw exceptions derived from standard exception 
classes
 >unless otherwise specified.

Good idea!  If a library didn't want to conform with the Boost "Chapter 
17", it could always exempt itself.

Who wants to volunteer to draft some wording?

--Beman