Re: [boost] [system][filesystem v3] Question about error_code arguments

Subject: Re: [boost] [system][filesystem v3] Question about error_code arguments
From: Peter Foelsche (peter_foelsche_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-26 18:32:12

"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:a61d44020910200815kedf3976t6e96a67e2f453271_at_mail.gmail.com...
>A POSIX sub-group is looking at C++ bindings for POSIX.
>
> They are talking about a filesystem library binding at least loosely
> based on Boost.System, Boost.Filesystem, and C++ TR2.
>
> In looking at 
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2009/n2838.html,
> "Library Support for Hybrid Error Handling (Rev 2)", they are
> concerned about specifying hybrid error handling like this:

What is the sense of a C++ interface, which does not throw on error?
I think meanwhile (this is 2009) we should be over the "I hate C++ Exception 
Handling" thinking.