Re: [boost] Exception lib?

From: Bronek Kozicki (brok_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-05 17:40:25

Peter Dimov wrote:
> How does your compiler help you spot duplicate tags? 

compiler (or actually language) provides tools to organize names in open 
(namespaces) or closed (nested types) hierarchies. These tools so far worked 
rather well, allowing users to define unique names (where sane design and 
source code organization are in place).

Of course, if you do not want to use these tools, you do not have to. For 
incomplete types it's OK to redeclare tag whenever you want to use it, and 
it's almost no different that using literals (although slightly annoying and 
one has to be careful of scope). However, once you want to organize names, 
tags have many advantages over strings. I tried to explain these advantages in 
previous messages. I believe that users will want to organize tags in all but 
most trivial projects, as exceptions handling begs for such organization due 
to its distributed nature.

B.