From: "Wesley W. Terpstra" <terpstra@ito.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
Cc: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Warnings for unhandled c++ exceptions?
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 19:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030203193700.GA27781@ito.tu-darmstadt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y94xp3en.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net>
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:31:12PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> "Wesley W. Terpstra" <terpstra@ito.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
>
> | There are lots of warnings for behaviours that are *legal* C++ but
> | unethical.
>
> These words ("legal", "unethical") sound wrong to me. Right now
> you're the first person using them in this discussion. I don't know
> why...
Because I was reading the C++ FAQ LITE yesterday. :-)
I thought his definitions were apt.
They are strong words though; maybe I should drop them.
What the FAQ meant with them is:
legal = syntactically correct and valid C++
that also won't segfault, break, etc
unethical = code that is fragile with respect to aging
eg: if (x = y) { ... } is legal code
but, unethical
I will stop using them; I thought that perhaps their use was more widespread
than that fellows page. Plus -- there are terse and (with the above
definitions) precise.
---
Wes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-03 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-03 13:13 Wesley W. Terpstra
2003-02-03 17:07 ` Joe Buck
2003-02-03 19:13 ` Mark Mielke
2003-02-03 19:24 ` Wesley W. Terpstra
2003-02-03 19:31 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-02-03 19:37 ` Wesley W. Terpstra [this message]
2003-02-03 19:45 ` Phil Edwards
2003-02-03 20:08 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-02-03 20:14 ` Phil Edwards
2003-02-03 20:15 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-02-03 20:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-02-03 15:24 Bonzini
2003-02-03 16:45 ` Wesley W. Terpstra
2003-02-03 18:13 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-02-03 18:17 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-02-03 19:14 Wesley W. Terpstra
2003-02-03 19:16 Wesley W. Terpstra
2003-02-03 19:39 Chris Lattner
2003-02-03 19:47 ` Wesley W. Terpstra
2003-02-03 20:12 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-02-03 21:25 Robert Dewar
2003-02-03 21:37 Robert Dewar
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