Sebastian Redl wrote:
As I understand it, the change of boost/throw_exception.hpp was proposed and discussed and finally - by apparent majority (as in, most people who spoke up were for it) - accepted before it was implemented. Also, I believe there was talk that there would be a simple preprocessor macro to revert to the old behaviour.
If I had been aware of this discussion, I would have raised the issue at the time. I can't follow them all. Sorry about that. It looks like for some compilers, the preprocessor macros alter the behavior to disabled - even though those compilers actually can throw exceptions so the new behavior is even more complex and arbitrary than I thought. Its hard to believe that a majority thought this was a good idea. Not that that's relevant. It's still a bad idea. Robert Ramey