Re: [boost] [Review] Shmem

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-11 17:49:07

David Abrahams wrote:
> Tobias Schwinger <tschwinger_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> 
>>Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
>>
>>>I won't discuss that RAII is very convenient and useful. I use RAII
>>>very often and I try to avoid try/catch using destructors to free
>>>resources.  But this is like problem like providing mutex locks ONLY
>>>through lockers. In some sw small enterprises I know (mine
>>>included), exceptions are not recommended (allowed) in the
>>>code. That can be because of misinformation but that's the
>>>reality. Even some programmers (I'm one of them), don't like
>>>exception model at all. And I agree with you that I need more
>>>documentation with two phase construction. Do you think that
>>>providing both methods will lead programmers to the "bad way"?
>>>
>>
>>100% agreement from my side!

Well, I don't generally dislike the exception model...

>>
>>Your current design is the only clean way to allow the user to choose
>>whether to use exceptions or not. 
> 
> 
> Really, the ONLY clean way?  Are you confident you've imagined all
> possibilities?
> 

;-)

Granted, maybe not. 

   s/only/a/ 

Still, your "#ifdef suggestion" seems much worse to me -- it might have been just provocative rhetoric rather than a serious proposal, I guess...

Regards,

Tobias