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Subject: Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries
From: Scott McMurray (me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-23 20:23:45


On 23 March 2010 17:43, 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.
>
> One of the first thing that comes up when a mixed language C/C++ project
> uses a C++ library is: Does this library throw exceptions?
>
> Generally and unfortunately, if the answer is yes, that library will be
> ignored out of hand.
>

At which point they'll go find some C library and proceed to ignore
most of the return codes and errno changes.


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