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 -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
