Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries

On 23 March 2010 17:43, 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.

One of the first thing that comes up when a mixed language C/C++ project uses a C++ library is: Does this library throw exceptions?

Generally and unfortunately, if the answer is yes, that library will be ignored out of hand.

At which point they'll go find some C library and proceed to ignore most of the return codes and errno changes.