Re: [boost] Re: guidelines on portable 'catch(...)' usage

From: Bronek Kozicki (brok_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-30 05:06:10

Ken Hagan wrote:
> If your code is portable, then catch (...) is the only way
> to deal with the fact that not everything is derived from
> std::exception. I see nothing wrong with it.

Shouldn't all exceptions in boost derive (directly or in most cases 
indirectly) from std::exception?

IIRC discussions from comp.lang.c++.moderated (about "technology stolen 
  by Andrei Alexandrescu from Yasland, ie. yet another std::vector<> 
implementation"), there was consensus that catch(...) is bad thing.

B.