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From: Peter Dimov <pdimov@pdimov.com> To: boost@lists.boost.org Sent: Sun, April 17, 2011 4:31:16 PM Subject: Re: [boost] [locale] Formal review of Boost.Locale library startstomorrow
Jeff wrote:
Okay, I can buy that in some circumstances, you want syntax errors to be silently ignored.
No. You are looking at the problem from a programmer perspective, but when these errors are introduced, there is no programmer present. [snip] This does not "silently ignore" the errors, it reports them in an appropriate way, to the appropriate person.
Now, you could make the case that you, as a programmer, should still have the error reported to you by the library so that you can log it (if the library doesn't have built-in logging support), which of course would also allow you to promptly proceed to ignore everything that's been said and make the error handlers throw exceptions. :-)
Actually it may be it is better to make boost::locale::format to add something to formatted message like cout << format(translate("Hello World {1}")) % param; The is translate to "bonjour le monde {1" (missed "}" Would print: "[syntax error] bonjour le monde {1" Instead of "bonjour le monde" However I'm not sure if it is desired default behavior. But interesting point to think about. Artyom