Oleg Abrosimov wrote:
Why? boost doesn't have such a macro till now. For me it means that there was no need in such a generic facility and it can be concluded that a chance for name clash in future is only theoretical here. From other point actual meaning of this macro is "catch and handle" but BOOST_CATCH_AND_HANDLE is too verbose for me. I believe that BOOST_CATCH is good enough. It is a compromise between user-friendliness and brevity. Fill free to suggest something if you are not convinced yet.
Boost is close to the standard and some libraries implement functionality that will be replaced with C++ core feature one day. For example: BOOST_TYPEDEF -> typedef BOOST_FOREACH -> foreach My first reaction on BOOST_CATCH was that it's a replacement or improved version C++'s catch. So, this patterns BOOST_${C++200x keyword} is accosiated with pure library implementation of proposed keyword and this pattern BOOST_${C++98 keyword} is accosiated with improved version of some existing keyword. -- Alexander Nasonov