Xref: utzoo gnu.g++.help:146 comp.std.c++:436 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lupine!rfg From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) Newsgroups: gnu.g++.help,comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: templates and exceptions in g++? Message-ID: <2756@lupine.NCD.COM> Date: 19 Nov 90 07:20:32 GMT References: <59137@microsoft.UUCP> Followup-To: gnu.g++.help Organization: Network Computing Devices, Inc., Mt. View, CA Lines: 22 In article <59137@microsoft.UUCP> jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes: +In article tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes: + +|I am just curious - is anyone out there trying to add the template and +|exception handling features (described as "experimental" in the Annotated +|C++ Reference Manual) to g++? I believe the ANSI committee is trying to +|standardize these features, but I don't know how much they have changed +|since the base document was published. + +Not regards g++, but rather regards the standardization effort: templates +are now considered to be "in", exceptions are expected to be in, +but there are people arguing the merits of resumable +exceptions vs Bjarne's original proposal, so we don't know exactly +what those exceptions are going to look like yet. "Resumable" exceptions are now dead. -- // Ron Guilmette - C++ Entomologist // Internet: rfg@ncd.com uucp: ...uunet!lupine!rfg // Motto: If it sticks, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.