From 4937006200296936576 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccf6a146f69dd0fc X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: bop@gmb.dk ("Bo Persson") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Legacy issues:was:Re: standardizing the exception handling mechanism across platform/compilers Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:24:30 GMT Lines: 43 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <3mudjdF18pch5U1@individual.net> References: <1123763925.850895.253360@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <42feece5$0$16078$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreenews.net> <430202d3$0$83690$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreenews.net> <7NpMe.1913$r54.162@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com> <1124226617.637407.216790@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <9vednf6yF4qWi5reRVn-hA@giganews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1124763875 14920 158.152.254.254 (23 Aug 2005 02:24:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:24:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-Priority: 3 X-Orig-X-Trace: individual.net IQHV2/fwhdDlpKNvicmFcA60PtgSQwyEbVf2W82H1xItqlKS5G X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id j7N2OU23015604; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:24:30 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:1900 ""Steven T. Hatton"" skrev i meddelandet news:CI-dnYbCl5arsZTeRVn-sA@speakeasy.net... > P.J. Plauger wrote: > >> ""Steven T. Hatton"" wrote in message >> news:hvSdncsz9YoE9pveRVn-jQ@speakeasy.net... >> >>> 1) _Are_ we going to break a zillion loc? >> >> No. > >>> 2) So? >> >> If the committee tries to do so, the revised standard will be >> ignored by a significant portion of their constituency. > > The entire standard, or just a particular feature? It doesn't matter much. There are major compiler vendors that also own a gazillion loc. What are the odds that they would 1) vote for a change that broke their own code base? 2) implement the changes in their compiler? It belive that is what the answer "No." to the first question really means. Bo Persson --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]