Topic: Exception specifications and function pointers.
Author: olaf@cwi.nl (Olaf Weber)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 10:09:25 GMT Raw View
In the latest version of the ANSI/ISO Resultions chapter, Bjarne
Stroustrup writes
(r.15.4) A pointer to function can have an _exception-
specification_. For example:
void f() throw(int); // ok
void (*fp)() throw(int); // ok
void(void af() throw(int)); // ok
Not mentioned is what a function that returns a pointer to a function
looks like; no grammar rules are given. I presume it should be
void (*f() throw(float))() throw(int);
where `f' is a function that throws a float, and returns a function
pointer of type `void (*)() throw(int)'. Is this correct? If not,
how do you specify such a beast?
-- Olaf Weber