From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-09-01 11:28:27
Valentin Bonnard wrote:
>Until something better emerges, I urge
>you to keep the existing code. [For assert() in casts.]
I don't think we can keep the existing code either.
I don't think we want to supply headers with even potential ODR
violations in them.
It really looks to me like the asserts have to go. We can add a note
to the docs explaining the decision.
Further, if the asserts go, the non-throwing version of the casts are
suspect.
Removing them would leave us with the throw_on_error versions only.
Which then, I suppose, don't need the extra overload selection
argument.
Dave Abrahams must be gnashing his teeth - it was his desire for the
non-throwing version (with assert) of polymorphic_cast that started
the whole idea of boost casts.
--Beman