On Wed 24/03/10 03:40 , Jonathan Franklin <franklin.jonathan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Tom Brinkman wrote:
... All I'm saying is that in the real world, most projects are mixed C/C++ and that the needs of both communities need to be addressed if boost is going to remain relevent.
For the sake of not arguing, let's assume that your assertion is true. Let's hear your *actionable* proposal for improving boost. E.g. show us the better interface for <insert Boost library here>
Taking an example from way back at the start othis thread, in my personal experience a non-throwing version of lexical_cast<> would be very nice. If I look at the cases where I pass user data through my libraries into boost libraries without some pre-validation, there are very few, and naturally these are the cases where the validation would as difficult as the "parse": - boost::spirit::phrase_parse - Just returns a true/false, and I build a nice context-driven error message myself if necessary. - boost::lexical_cast - throws. Almost always needs to be caught and re-thrown.