Re: [boost] [Boost.Local] Review

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost.Local] Review
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-24 05:37:21

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Joel Falcou <joel.falcou_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 24/11/2011 10:40, Daniel James wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> 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.
>
> I am just asking users to actually be vocal about such error walls so the
> situation comes up to our level of consciousness. These are bugs like other,
> except it is diffcult to preemptively find them due to the fact some slight
> details of suer defined types may induce such phenomena.
>
> Then, th etool for fixing them are there, static-assert and concept check
> are working rather nicely once you actually use them.
>

+1

Although I've always thought that bad error messages were because
current compilers suck at making intelligible error messages.

Cheers

-- 
Dean Michael Berris
http://goo.gl/CKCJX