Re: [boost] Filesystem Library --- exceptions

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-23 07:11:59

as was pointed out earlier in this thread, a single class of exception may 
have multiple reasons to be thrown, and the ability to discriminate may be 
important.

At Monday 2002/09/23 04:47, you wrote:
>From: "Victor A. Wagner, Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]>
> > I understand, but it's a lot faster to do a "switch" on an int, than on a
> > const char* (another thing left out of the language)
>
>Why would you do a "switch" on an exception's error code?
>
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