Re: [Boost-users] Why doesn't boost use empty throws() list?

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Joseph Garvin wrote:

For example, all the smart pointer headers have:

// never throws

Next to their definitions, rather than an actual "throws()". I'd guess this has to do with compiler compatibility, but there are already plenty of macro hacks for enabling/disabling details like this on a compiler by compiler basis.

Just curious.

Read this guideline documentation for the rationale: http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Exception-specification Regards, Eugene Wee