220 12083 article Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Porter Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals Subject: Re: Variadic catch Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 02:22:43 -0500 Lines: 20 Approved: news@gmane.org Message-ID: References: <2166097.YGBpiGkxHC@tjmaciei-mobl4> Reply-To: std-proposals@isocpp.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406359406 17083 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2014 07:23:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 07:23:26 +0000 (UTC) To: std-proposals@isocpp.org Original-X-From: std-proposals+bncBDYZZG6PQYFRBZFOZWPAKGQEZGCGZCI@isocpp.org Sat Jul 26 09:23:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mail-lb0-f198.google.com ([209.85.217.198]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XAwK5-00042x-JL for gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:23:17 +0200 Original-Received: by mail-lb0-f198.google.com with SMTP id l4sf3918309lbv.5 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:23:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:to:from:subject:date:lines:message-id:references :mime-version:user-agent:in-reply-to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=P39KyEp4i74r6SwVoBtLcnQWdrse8pM/kCAtpC6fA7I=; b=VPVNbGbcqL4q3wmibfYR+OKOwVj93E6GDmCY6lzfQwBm0/yhKtuBYcDhhF/NmlYmko fWxvVH8vHHmoT5xBI9CLELxmqEZkvgTp9X0HRLZq7upMTBdFUPiTGztfbQsO/Zfj/Yl6 BpdJeHuBstdR9wtwhak+xuoJTQtOqdnBI6NF6ifCiwscYgRuSWcBZbNdjd3jEuQFfAcM Awn+SOYHODrxCQtvPRqQ+mlzIz6S1ZEJZRYVDpbM+jo95Qes7CuKq/qAdBd6eHWWLEg7 Xb/mpIzvZS3ndbJfKl/7PJI+Wy/HshBAqVl9Vqu21DHTlY4xsrezUMJbedfCFBXF8A24 Uzhg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQknkJhvYxXsn8go9aMAaMn30AectKJuBp7qiQxNQ5huqpOigZzRBqVn4ls/My+BYaKJLvoC X-Received: by 10.180.12.244 with SMTP id b20mr936308wic.2.1406359397285; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:23:17 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: std-proposals@isocpp.org Original-Received: by 10.152.5.133 with SMTP id s5ls63146las.81.gmail; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:23:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.112.198.161 with SMTP id jd1mr19443982lbc.56.1406359395598; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org. [80.91.229.3]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ka3si40992539lbc.0.2014.07.26.00.23.15 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) client-ip=80.91.229.3; Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XAwK2-00041H-Po for std-proposals@isocpp.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:23:14 +0200 Original-Received: from 71-87-112-150.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com ([71.87.112.150]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:23:14 +0200 Original-Received: from jvp4846 by 71-87-112-150.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:23:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71-87-112-150.dhcp.mdsn.wi.charter.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 In-Reply-To: <2166097.YGBpiGkxHC@tjmaciei-mobl4> X-Original-Sender: jvp4846@g.rit.edu X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org Precedence: list Mailing-list: list std-proposals@isocpp.org; contact std-proposals+owners@isocpp.org List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 399137483710 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals:12083 Archived-At: On 7/25/2014 2:14 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > Sometimes, the API being tested may not be able to distinguish an error from > another. You know a certain operation will cause a failure, but you're not > sure which one will be detected. This may be even related to how the OS > reports the issues. That's true, of course, but I'm not sure it would necessitate a language feature (even a library feature seems a bit much to me); if I ran into this, I'd probably be happy with a non-generic solution. - Jim -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ISO C++ Standard - Future Proposals" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to std-proposals+unsubscribe@isocpp.org. To post to this group, send email to std-proposals@isocpp.org. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/group/std-proposals/. .