Re: Exception specifications unfortunate, and what about their future?
In article
<a0aed6f8-e64f-421d-90b4-30177ea54660@t3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
JoshuaMaurice@gmail.com wrote:
Proposal:
- The throws specification of a function can include the keyword auto.
Ex:
void foo() throw(auto);
void bar() throw(std::bad_alloc, auto);
void baz() throw(auto, std::bad_alloc);
What is the difference between:
void foo();
void foo() throw(auto);
void foo() throw(std::bad_alloc, auto);
void foo() throw(auto, std::bad_alloc);
If this were the body of foo:
{
static unsigned u;
if (++u % 2)
throw u;
else
throw std::bad_alloc();
}
I don't see any difference, either at compile time or run time, between
the four declarations.
Could you provide an example that shows the differences between the four
cases?
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