Re: [boost] [guidelines] why template errors suck

Subject: Re: [boost] [guidelines] why template errors suck
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-24 16:00:29

(please don't top-post, rearranging....)

On 9/24/2010 3:52 PM, John B. Turpish wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Roland Bock wrote:
>> To consider and report overly long error messages as errors could 
>> help, indeed. I am not sure though, if there will be simple rules 
>> as to when something really should be taken care of?
> 
> Maybe the standard is just: if you can't figure out what the error 
> (or warning) message means, ask the library author. If the get asked 
> the same question 500 times it'll start to look like an error to 
> them.

I'd like to see library authors be a bit more proactive than that.
Template libraries, and boost's in particular, have a real perception
problem. Better techniques exist. They just need to be applied.

-- 
Eric Niebler
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