Re: [boost] [function] function wrapping withnoexceptionsafetyguarantee

Subject: Re: [boost] [function] function wrapping withnoexceptionsafetyguarantee
From: Domagoj Saric (dsaritz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-23 13:42:12

"vicente.botet" <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:C760054B35E448C8A31F88FED992010A_at_viboes1...

> Change requests that break the interface should not be acceptable in 
> principle.

True, but in itself this practically a tautology...

Obviously, and thankfully, it is also not a dogma as sometimes other goals 
have outweighed this principle (so we did have breaking changes, like the 
Filesystem, GIL.IO....)...

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