Re: [boost] Review Request: Boost Exception

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-14 13:11:24

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>>> Moving the catch clause to a destructor doesn't seem an improvement
>>> to me.
>> 
>> Using a catch clause to add information to a propagating exception
>> feels syntactically heavy to me, but of course others may disagree.
>> And it may also be that without language support, there's not really a
>> good way to avoid that weight.  I'm just expressing an aesthetic
>> preference here.
>
> Won't you need to prepare all the extra information even if nothing throws?

No, you could do it lazily.

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