[boost] Re: Exception safety guarantie

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-15 10:57:04

Pavol Droba <droba_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Now I see, that plain formulation "they provide strong exception guarantee"
> is enough. And that is exactly the point I wanted to get to.

I strongly believe that the language "if an exception is thrown there
are no effects" is better than talking about the strong guarantee,
because eventually you get into variations like these:

>   "If an exception is thrown, there are no effects other than those
>   of <user-supplied operation>"
> 
> and
> 
>   "If an exception is thrown other than by <user-supplied operation>,
>   there are no effects"

and the basic language used is the same.

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Dave Abrahams
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