Re: [boost] [Boost.Local] Review

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost.Local] Review
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-24 04:40:27

On 24 November 2011 07:43, Joel Falcou <joel.falcou_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Lemme paraphrase Eric Niebler on the subject : "Template based library
> outputing walls of error are library with usability bug and these should be
> fixed". We have the tools for that (static assert, non-cascading dispatch on
> error etc), th eproblem is peopel just don't get this and bitch about the
> error instead of filling bugs for the rror to be spotted and corrected.

We can only use the things we have, not what we could potentially
have. And what we have is horrendous error messages. And it takes more
than filing bugs to fix that.