Subject: Re: [boost] Is Boost.Range broken?
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-22 13:25:35
on Sat Nov 22 2008, "Dave Handley" <dave-AT-dah.me.uk> wrote:
>> My guess is that they're Thorsten's attempt to avoid silent breakage.
>> Whether or not the attempt was well-executed is another matter, but I
>> can understand why he might have done it: he realized that the original
>> design was wrong, and rather than silently letting people get away with
>> using it in ways that were to become illegal, he detected the
>> newly-illegal usage in the only way possible, at runtime.
>
> Newly illegal usage should always be documented as such - and in this
> instance I'm not convinced it was.
It should be easy enough to verify one way or another.
-- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com