----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Dimov" <pdimov@pdimov.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [boost] [exception] library update
vicente.botet:
The previous documented semantics do not requires that the exception parameter should be derived from std::exception
They do, it just wasn't explicitly stated, and wasn't tested (which allowed one to throw enums by mistake).
If 'e' doesn't derive from std::exception, the code won't compile when BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is defined, and the original purpose of boost::throw_exceptions was precisely to support the case when BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is defined.
So why to define a template in the case BOOST_NO_EXCEPTIONS is not defined? ______________________ Vicente Juan Botet Escribá