Re: [Boost-users] Library Interface Design

Scott Meyers writes:

Hmmm, I'd think this entire constructor would exist only in debug builds, e.g.,

class EventLog { public: #ifdef DEBUG EventLog(bool dummyarg); #endif

Unfortunately, conditional compilation is not without its own resultant spaghetti code and concomitant maintenance headaches.

I'd much rather develop a library of mock objects for testing. Okay a conforming mock stream may be a little work to write, but you write it once and you're done. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com