Gennaro Prota <gennaro_prota@yahoo.com> writes:
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:51:03 -0500, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
Gennaro Prota <gennaro_prota@yahoo.com> writes:
Out of curiosity, you say "sad" because there have been previous discussions with Peter and he had a different opinion?
No, because it means we have to concede an otherwise benign standard language feature is rendered bad/dangerous/useless by various operating environments:
try { ... } catch(...) { //... throw; }
Well, yes, but it seemed that Peter was making a more general point ("any catch that can be replaced", not just catch(...))
...and what other catches can be replaced by RAII? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com