Re: [boost] Re: exception context

From: Greg Colvin (gregory.colvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-21 14:15:48

On Friday, Mar 21, 2003, at 11:51 America/Denver, Gennaro Prota wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:06:45 -0700, Greg Colvin
> <gregory.colvin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> The idea of the why() member was to preserve context when one 
>> exception
>> gets caught and a different one gets thrown, so you could walk back 
>> the
>> chain of why()'s asking what() and where().  I bring it up just as a
>> design that might be worth resurrecting if it meets your needs.
>
> Do you have pointers to the old std::exception specification, with
> where() and why() members?
>
> PS: I declare myself out of this vague discussion. Just curious about
> those ones :-)
>
> Genny.
>
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