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Re: Warning on C++ catch by value on non primitive types

From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
To: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
Cc: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>, Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, tcosta at ovro dot caltech dot edu
Date: 14 Oct 2005 01:59:01 +0200
Subject: Re: Warning on C++ catch by value on non primitive types
References: <20051013094122.21c36d3a.bkoz@redhat.com><20051013155857.GA28904@synopsys.com><9A3B1803-CAF8-4E25-B891-B262F7794D30@apple.com>

Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> writes:

| On Oct 13, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Joe Buck wrote:
| > -Weffc++ is broken and should just die.
| 
| Or we can `modernize it' by removing those things we no longer agree
| with, and document the bits of it that we don't like anymore in the
| manual.

I find that to be invitation to confusion.  People who the rules or
have been trained to learn the rules would be needlessly confused.
And people who don't know them would be confused too.  Call it
something else you shall.

-- Gaby

References:
- Re: Warning on C++ catch by value on non primitive types
  - From: Benjamin Kosnik
- Re: Warning on C++ catch by value on non primitive types
  - From: Joe Buck
- Re: Warning on C++ catch by value on non primitive types
  - From: Mike Stump

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