On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Tom Brinkman <reportbase2007@gmail.com> wrote:
In any event, my point is that c++ exception handeling should be optional. Boost libraries need to be updated to reflect this.
Look at the design of C++ constructors: the postcondition of a constructor is that the object instance is initialized successfully. Had Stroustrup listened to people arguing about "optional" exception handling, the C++ constructors would have been useless because they wouldn't have that postcondition. It is the same with any other use of exceptions. Make them optional, and you throw away the *only* reason to use them in the first place: to enforce postconditions. Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode