[boost] Re: Exception safety guarantie

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-19 19:19:30

"David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>David Abrahams wrote:
>>>>[...]
>>>>- Unless otherwise specified, all Boost library operations give the
>>>>  /basic guarantee/: the library's maintains its invariants and does
>>>
>>> >   not leak resources in the face of exceptions.
>>>
>>>I would just make the editorial fixes as so:
>>>
>>>     ...the library maintains its invariants...
>> I don't understand what you're suggesting here.  Can you be more
>> explicit?
>
> It's a trivial matter of grammar.  You wrote "...the library's
> maintains...", which has improper subject-verb agreement (number).  In
> fact, you probably din't mean to use the posessive case at all, which
> is what I changed.

Thanks.  I missed it the first time, and then I missed it when you
corrected it!

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Dave Abrahams
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