From -8819214785518431328 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,82cd3599ce330676 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid7894ca11fe,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:11 -0500 Return-Path: To: (Usenet) From: Alexander Terekhov Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: throwing in a noexcept(true) function Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Sender: cppmods@cs.rpi.edu Approved: austern@google.com Message-ID: <4BB4A91F.96214C99@web.de> References: <3707c5ae-e25f-4ca2-9195-8b8be17ddec1@b9g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <4BAE1663.1E83B5D3@web.de> <8i12r5hoe7gqsiagpjv12103gtdo0vbh39@4ax.com> Reply-To: terekhov@web.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Original-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:09:35 +0200 X-Submission-Address: std-c++@netlab.cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:51:14 CST Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-34QArrNJvhrWjJVEPrnSPQRy4Rj4LCEwwHyKsA0WaE9rcKCow36iH8Z6Fo5UtOf37jNHv+2TyD8vf87!li+jb7UVQ3T3TgOpKuvtAcBy9k5mX6i66pRTgo+ELB04BV1u X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:2357 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: [...] > Another choice that was suggested by some members of the BSI C++ Panel is: > > c) implementation-defined behaviour > > It's not undefined behaviour, but, equally, it's not as rigid as "the > program shall always terminate", either; which would satisfy those who > are (I am told) in the "option (b) is premature standardization" camp. A two-phase exception-handling model is decades old. It's time to mandate it. regards, alexander. -- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@netlab.cs.rpi.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]