Re: [boost] Re: guidelines on portable 'catch(...)' usage

Ken Hagan wrote:

If your code is portable, then catch (...) is the only way to deal with the fact that not everything is derived from std::exception. I see nothing wrong with it.

Shouldn't all exceptions in boost derive (directly or in most cases indirectly) from std::exception? IIRC discussions from comp.lang.c++.moderated (about "technology stolen by Andrei Alexandrescu from Yasland, ie. yet another std::vector<> implementation"), there was consensus that catch(...) is bad thing. B.