Re: [Boost-users] Disabling Exception Handling

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Disabling Exception Handling
From: peter_foelsche_at_[hidden]
Date: 2009-04-14 12:58:19

> I used to have to live under the same silly coding standard.  
> Eventually 
> I was able to convince the rest of the team, except the one guy who 
> had 
> the power to make such decisions, that we were being really silly.  
> We 
> *were* linking to the standard library so any supposed benefit of not 
> using exceptions was lost (and I don't buy the supposed benefits 
> either).  Eventually that guy quit; best thing to ever happen to us 
> actually.
> 
> But then, he had a big issue with third party libs too so using boost 
> was even out of the question at the time.
> 
> My advice would be to try your best to convince your team leader that 
> compiling with that switch is possibly not the best idea in the 
> world. 
> If you can't convince them, maybe you can outlast them and eventually 
> make positive changes for your employer.

There seem to be plenty of rather stupid people,
which have a problem with exception handling.