On 7/8/06, Jeremy Day <jeremy.day@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm all for doing whatever possible to keep library users from inadvertantly doing stupid things, but I personally feel that in this case the benefits of using a pointer (being able to catch old exceptions and test for the optional exception_info) outweigh the dangers of users potentially doing something ridiculous with the exception_info pointer.
With my example implementation of exception_info and get_exception_info which returns (always) a reference to exception_info, you achieve the same without having the user expect to retrieve a pointer -- with which you can get wrong a lot of times, compared to using references. So you get the best of both worlds. ;) -- Dean Michael C. Berris C/C++ Software Architect Orange and Bronze Software Labs http://3w-agility.blogspot.com/ http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ Mobile: +639287291459 Email: dean [at] orangeandbronze [dot] com