[geos-devel] Making exceptions inherit from std::exception

[Niki Spahiev]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:04:16 +0100, strk at refractions.net
<strk at refractions.net> wrote:
> > Is there a reason to throw exceptions in this way?  Didn't Scott
> > Meyers have something to say about that in _Effective C++_?  (Sorry,
> > don't have my copy handy here at work.)
> 
> I don't know who Scott Meyers is, anyway I understand myself that
> throwing by pointer has been a *wrong* decision. I didn't take it,
> and taking it now would be problematic for current users.

But not fixing it will be bad for all current and future users.
Please don't leave fixes for later.

Niki Spahiev