Re: [boost] [system][filesystem v3]Question about error_codearguments

Subject: Re: [boost] [system][filesystem v3]Question about error_codearguments
From: Domagoj Saric (dsaritz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-07 12:05:14

"Stewart, Robert" <Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:DF2E67F3D097004694C8428C70A3FD69046F55F97B_at_msgbal516.ds.susq.com...
> [snip much too much text to read, let alone study]
...
> I imagine there was useful information in your, but I won't be
> commenting on it as it stands, because I can't afford to take the time
> it would require.  You might try sending a more succinct version of that
> post.

oh well :)
perhaps i can give you a short introduction/"a bit extended toc"...

firstly i tried to fix the ambiguity of my first post by separating the two 
problems of checked error codes and of the error-codes vs exceptions debate...

then, after briefly summarizing and 'solving' the first problem i identified 
the "three schools of thought" in the error-codes vs exceptions debate...

...there i expanded on the arguments from the boost::error_code documentation 
in favour of the hybrid approach and against either of the "fundamentalist" 
approaches (only exceptions or only error codes)...
then i summarized the three hybrid solutions so far proposed in this thread 
(error codes, overloads and "smart error objects") trying to document their so 
far percieved advantages and disadvantages...

then i acknowledged that a hybrid approach is not universally applicable and 
tried to identify and define the line when a switch to exceptions must be 
made...

ps. the probably largest part, in the middle of the post, is an "efficency 
rant" with real life examples of the effect that the presence of exceptions has 
on generated code as well as a 'case against' the 'managed' trends in c++...in 
general your garden variety "i do not want to pay for what i do not use" cry 
;-D

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