Gerhard Wesp wrote:
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 07:53:12AM -0700, Marshall Clow wrote:
No one is going to show that string to end users.
Hmmm, I do, quite frequently actually. Maybe I'm just anachronistic, but I do hold useful error messages in high value. :-)
I'm pretty sure there is a confusion here :) The discussion (I hope) is about the exception lib that I'm proposing for addition to boost, and the what() function of class boost::exception. You're probably thinking about std::exception::what(), which is different. I realize naming the function what() is begging for this confusion, but I named it what() because its purpose is very similar: to identify the exception (info stored in the exception) object, not to format a message for the user. --Emil Dotchevski