Re: exception handling anti-patterns in documentation

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-05-29 14:10:15

On 5/28/22 3:39 PM, Andrzej Krzemienski via Boost wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I wanted to share an observation. A number of Boost libraries, in
> documentation, when it comes to demonstrating that a given function throws
> an exception, has a code sample like the following:
> 
> try {
>>    lib::function();
>> }
>> catch(lib::exception const&) {
>>    // handle failure
>> }
>>

Could you explain what's wrong with the above code?

Robert Ramey

> Regards,
> &rzej;
> 
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