In article <39545@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
+
+g++ (as of version 1.36) contains a slightly different exception handling
+mechanism.  Last time I looked at it, it didn't quite work.
+
+I suspect that you'll see further work once the ANSI committee gets more
+aligned about how exceptions and templates will work...

They just did.

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In article <TOM.90Nov13072058@hcx2.ssd.csd.harris.com> 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.

In article <59137@microsoft.UUCP> jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes:
>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.

Ah, don't you just love language design by committee?  Especially when the
committee throws out the "prior art" rule?  X3J11 showed commendable restraint
in what they did to C, but there are storm warnings out for C++...
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In article <59137@microsoft.UUCP> jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes:
+In article <TOM.90Nov13072058@hcx2.ssd.csd.harris.com> 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.

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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.
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In article <TOM.90Nov13072058@hcx2.ssd.csd.harris.com>, 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.

g++ (as of version 1.36) contains a slightly different exception handling
mechanism.  Last time I looked at it, it didn't quite work.

I suspect that you'll see further work once the ANSI committee gets more
aligned about how exceptions and templates will work, and lots of people
will have input.


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In article <TOM.90Nov13072058@hcx2.ssd.csd.harris.com>, 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.

I will be doing some work to implement function and class templates in
g++ over the next couple of months.  This may include some extensions
beyond the description in the ARM.