Subject: Re: [boost] [locale] Review part 1: headers
From: Gevorg Voskanyan (v_gevorg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-10 04:58:34
Hi Artyom,
Artyom wrote:
> Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> > Definitely a no-no.
> > Dereferencing an invalid iterator is a programming error, not an
> > exceptional situation.
> >
> > The thing to use is an assertion.
> I'm sorry but as far as I remember nobody deprecated
> std::logic_error (and std::out_of_range derived from it).
>
> Small point, when you program some mission critical systems
> and services you don't want the process to go down for
> something that maybe only a single response can go
> down that way. This is very important for some
> mission critical code (and I had written such
> code not once).
For that reason one can specify a different behavior for BOOST_ASSERT to invoke
when it fails - throw std::logic_error, log somewhere, whatever.
For ordinary programs, I definitely want a programmer error to result in an
immediate termination of the program, which is what I get from BOOST_ASSERT by
default. However when writing a mission critical system one can easily make
BOOST_ASSERT to do something else, as appropriate for the project.
So my point is that I see no reason for BOOST_ASSERT not to be used here.
Best Regards,
Gevorg