Re: [boost] Is there interest in unit testing both passing and failing BOOST_MPL_ASSERTs?

Subject: Re: [boost] Is there interest in unit testing both passing and failing BOOST_MPL_ASSERTs?
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-13 13:17:52

Le 13/09/11 18:10, Dave Abrahams a écrit :
> on Tue Sep 13 2011, Ben Robinson<icaretaker-AT-gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Is anybody interested in this capability, and/or my modifications to the
>> single file boost/mpl/assert.hpp which have enabled this capability?
> If you're just checking MPL assertions, then presumably there's a
> predicate that can be evaluated without throwing.  Why not just feed
> those predicates' results to regular runtime assertions?
>
> Doesn't seem like we need a new tool.  The very point of
> BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_* is to catch errors at compile time.  If you want
> something else, there are plenty of appropriate choices.
>
+1

Vicente