"Bryce Lelbach" <admin@thefireflyproject.us> wrote in message news:20101007224448.75308cb8@Pegasus...
I think this is great, for selfish reasons. I'm currently working on a project that uses the clang and LLVM API. clang and LLVM coding conventions are to compile w/o exceptions and without RTTI. I'm able to compile the Boost that I use (Spirit/Proto/Fusion + deps mostly) without RTTI (after a minor fix to the provided Boost workaround), but getting jazz to compile without exceptions is a larger task. This would make it easier.
Ability to turn off RTTI, specify on-empty policy which uses target functors instead of if-empty-then (with provided assert-on-empty, throw-on-empty and nop-on-empty handlers/functors), work w/o exceptions or work in an exception-enabled environment but only mark itself as a nothrow function, as well as many other improvements (reduced template bloat, compiler-specific optimizations, etc.) is already done (in an alpha-msvc only state): https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/function/boost/function http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/195351 ... Considering that interest again seems to be on the rise, maybe Doug Gregor will finally find the time to go through all/some of these proposals and that some changes will finally be made...and I might also finally finish my code/changes now that I've started working with GCC... -- "What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate." Neil Postman