Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries
From: Emil Dotchevski (emildotchevski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-23 18:48:37

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Tom Brinkman <reportbase2007_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> In any event, my point is that c++ exception handeling should be optional.
> Boost libraries need to be updated to reflect this.

Look at the design of C++ constructors: the postcondition of a
constructor is that the object instance is initialized successfully.
Had Stroustrup listened to people arguing about "optional" exception
handling, the C++ constructors would have been useless because they
wouldn't have that postcondition.

It is the same with any other use of exceptions. Make them optional,
and you throw away the *only* reason to use them in the first place:
to enforce postconditions.

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
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