Re: about exception specification
* George2:
How do you understand the comments from Bjarne about exception
specification?
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(section 14.6.1 Checking Exception Specifications)
The way to think about exception-specifications is to assume that a
function will throw any exception it can. The rules for compile-time
checking exception-specifications outlaw easily detected absurdities.
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There are not that many rules for compile time checking of exception
specifications.
Without checking the standard, as I recall they apply
* When you override a virtual function: you can't use a more
permissive exception specification on the override.
* When you assign to or initialize a function pointer, ditto.
If instead these were permitted, then exception specifications could not
be relied on for virtual functions or function pointers.
Cheers, & hth.,
- Alf
PS: When quoting someone, please do provide a reference to the source of
the quote. You haven't done so here, and you didn't last time you posted.
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