Re: [boost] [exception] library update

Subject: Re: [boost] [exception] library update
From: vicente.botet (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-10 07:07:58

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] [exception] library update

>
> vicente.botet:
>
>> The previous documented semantics do not requires that the exception 
>> parameter should be derived from std::exception
>
> They do, it just wasn't explicitly stated, and wasn't tested (which 
> allowed one to throw enums by mistake).
>
> If 'e' doesn't derive from std::exception, the code won't compile when 
> BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is defined, and the original purpose of 
> boost::throw_exceptions was precisely to support the case when 
> BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is defined.

So why to define a template in the case BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is not defined?

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