Re: [boost] Re: future of boost.threads

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-10 00:38:07

At Monday 2004-02-09 14:18, you wrote:
>"Brock Peabody" <brock.peabody_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]]
> >> On Behalf Of Victor A. Wagner, Jr.
> >
> >> We can either do nothing (until the standard changes so we can handle ALL
> >> types) or we can do something (handle the built-in types and the standard
> >> exceptions).
> >>
> >> I suggest "something" as a useful approach.
> >
> > I'd suggest allowing the user to specify a typelist rather than hard coding
> > the standard types.  You could supply as a default the list of standard
> > types.
>
>There are better ways.  Boost.Python uses a dynamic registration
>technique.  Compile-time enumeration of the exceptions is overkill
>and not sufficiently flexible.

I'm all ears to hear about runtime exception detection and classification
what syntax for the compiletime catch() do you expect to use?

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>Dave Abrahams
>Boost Consulting
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