Re: [Boost-users] Useful macro

From: Zeljko Vrba (zvrba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-24 09:26:17

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 03:04:50PM +0200, Ovanes Markarian wrote:
> 
> Just a question: why do you need the do-while loop if this thing iterates anyway only once? You
> can define a new scope without do and while:
> 
That's in the C FAQ: http://c-faq.com/cpp/multistmt.html

Without do/while, the following code wouldn't compile:

if(x)
  THROW(x+1 == 0);
else
  THROW(x == 7);

The macro name is definetly too long, i couldn't force myself to write
it even for this simple illustration.