Message-ID: <4E49D9E4.9010603@dcook.org>
Date: 2011-08-16T02:45:56Z
From: Darren Cook
Subject: [Rcpp-devel] Code Refactor Proposal: exception specifiers
I had a poke around the Rcpp code today, and noticed exception
specifiers are used quite widely. I wondered if these were used with
full knowledge of their pros/cons in C++, or if they were put there by
someone coming from Java?
Some arguments against their use:
* Item 14 in Meyer's More Effective C++
(the Session destructor example was enough to convince me.)
* Herb Sutter's "A Pragmatic Look at Exception Specifications":
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill22.htm
* C++0x has deprecated them.
(it introduces "noexcept" as a better throw(), but not available until
g++ 4.6)
Darren
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