Re: [boost] full cyclic_buffer

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-13 14:53:35

At 09:01 PM 6/9/2003, Dave Gomboc wrote:

 >> Instead of dropping elements when the buffer is full, we might also
 >> consider waiting or throwing a failure.
 >
 >I consider "dropping elements" to be surprising behaviour.  If there's no
 >policy stuff, then either decide that it will throw, or leave what 
happens
 >to be implementation-defined.

Let's avoid implementation-defined behavior in Boost libraries unless there 
is some really pressing rationale. When behavior may vary between 
implementations, it creates both portability and security problems.

--Beman