Re: [boost] [Boost.Breakable] Any interest in a Boost Breakable library?

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost.Breakable] Any interest in a Boost Breakable library?
From: David Bergman (David.Bergman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-06 16:08:25

On Sep 6, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Pierre Morcello wrote:

>>>>>> if you need a construct that forms a scope, accomplishes a  
>>>>>> tasks and then
> exists the scope from anywhere in between, that's a function.
>
> Yes, I remember thinking like this at the beginning. But declaring a  
> function each times sometimes makes the code less readable. It's  
> like declaring a functor for iterating over all objects of a  
> collection : you can do it but BOOST_FOREACH is just much more  
> readable. What is more you need to give a name to your function.  
> It's just more complicated than just writing the name of the macro.
>
> Creating a function when you only want to solve a break-scope problem

What is a "break-scope problem" to you? I think you might use the  
wrong "analysis pattern" here...

> is doing too much IMHO. It's using a specific aspect of the language  
> that allows to break anywhere, not a tool that is meant to do it

/David