Runtime exception check at compile time?

[Eljay Love-Jensen]

Hi Matt,

> I've painfully discovered that all exceptions in c++ functions must be
declared if they are thrown.

What do you mean?  Like this...

class Foo;
int Func()
{
  throw Foo();
}

Yes, you need to declare Foo.  A forward declaration is insufficient.

> Can the compiler enforce this at compile time instead of at runtime?

GCC's g++ compiler/linker disallows the above, for me.

--Eljay