[boost] Re: BOOST_TRY like macros: time to add them?

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro_prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-10 07:43:40

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:51:03 -0500, David Abrahams
<dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>Gennaro Prota <gennaro_prota_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>> Out of curiosity, you say "sad" because there have been previous
>> discussions with Peter and he had a different opinion?
>
>No, because it means we have to concede an otherwise benign standard
>language feature is rendered bad/dangerous/useless by various
>operating environments:
>
>          try
>          {
>                ...
>          }
>          catch(...)
>          {
>                //...
>                throw;
>          }
>                

Well, yes, but it seemed that Peter was making a more general point
("any catch that can be replaced", not just catch(...))

--
Genny.