Re: [boost] Boost and exceptions

Nevin Liber wrote:

Good practices can reduce (but not eliminate) accidental risk., but ultimately, one has to balance risk of breakage vs. enhancement value.

Your missing something key here. This injection of a gratuitous dependency wasn't any way necessary. Boost exception could have just as easily used it's own name for this function rather than hijacking an existing one which had a different purpose. This would have been better than, and if fact it would be better now, even though now it would be a "breaking change" This "breaking change was in no way necessary. I think I've tried to point that out. Robert Ramey