Re: [boost] [asio] Formal Review

From: Caleb Epstein (caleb.epstein_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-12 22:13:56

On 12/12/05, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:

What is your view on the issue of error handling? Are you happy the way it
> now stands? Would you prefer exceptions be thrown? Would you prefer a
> "can't
> ignore" return error code approach?

I prefer that exceptions not be thrown as I think they add little value over
the simple error code wrapper in the library right now.  They also beg the
question of what mechanism would be used to trigger the exception.  The
un-ignorable error type might be an interesting solution however.

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Caleb Epstein
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