Re: Library category error handling

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-11-07 15:24:33

Niall Douglas wrote:
> On 06/11/2021 19:00, Emil Dotchevski via Boost wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 11:34 AM Emil Dotchevski
> > <emildotchevski_at_[hidden]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Should we add a formal category for error handling libraries in
> > https://www.boost.org/development/library_metadata.html?
> >
> >>
> > To clarify, Boost currently offers the following:
> >
> > - Boost Exception
> > - Outcome
> > - LEAF
> > - boost::system::result
> 
> I actually would have said it's all of Boost.System, not Boost.System's result.
> Code such as `if(ec) ...` for example.
> 
> Also instead of error handling can we call the category "failure handling"
> please? The difference is that errors are often expected and handled locally,
> whereas failures implies some process of unwinding.

"Error handling" is a much more well known phrase. I've never heard anyone
talk of "failure handling", neither am I sure that its definition is necessarily
what you suggest.