Re: [boost] Boost and exceptions

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost and exceptions
From: Emil Dotchevski (emildotchevski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-25 21:41:53

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Steven Watanabe wrote:
> > AMDG
>
> > I think that you've gotten so fixated
> > on avoiding instrumenting the original
> > throw site, that it's blinding to the
> > readability issues with your solutions.
>
> Well, I AM fixated on the requirement to instrument the original
> throw site.  I wouldn't have cared except for the way
> it was attempted to enforce this requirement.
> But now that I've been made to care about it, I'll state that
> this is the fundamental problem with the library.
> To try to impose such a requirement on the libraries on
> application might use is not realistic.

Currently there is no requirement for Boost libraries to call
boost::throw_exception to throw.

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode