26 Oct
2009
26 Oct
'09
10:32 p.m.
"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> wrote in message news:a61d44020910200815kedf3976t6e96a67e2f453271@mail.gmail.com...
A POSIX sub-group is looking at C++ bindings for POSIX.
They are talking about a filesystem library binding at least loosely based on Boost.System, Boost.Filesystem, and C++ TR2.
In looking at http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2009/n2838.html, "Library Support for Hybrid Error Handling (Rev 2)", they are concerned about specifying hybrid error handling like this:
What is the sense of a C++ interface, which does not throw on error? I think meanwhile (this is 2009) we should be over the "I hate C++ Exception Handling" thinking.