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- From: austern (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Moderation policy (Was: Throwing an exception from within a signal handler)
- Date: 09 Jan 1996 15:10:37 PST
- Organization: SGI
- Approved: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
- Message-ID: <AUSTERN.96Jan9110251@isolde.mti.sgi.com>
- References: <4cpmh0$ltf@natasha.rmii.com>
- <Etay_Bogner-0901961008510001@metay.stil.scitex.com>
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- X-Original-Date: 09 Jan 1996 19:02:51 GMT
- In-Reply-To: Etay_Bogner@mail.stil.scitex.com's message of 09 Jan 96 14:48:03 GMT
- Originator: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
-
- In article <Etay_Bogner-0901961008510001@metay.stil.scitex.com> Etay_Bogner@mail.stil.scitex.com (Etay Bogner) writes:
-
- > >> Does the proposed ANSI standard say anything about throwing an exception
- > >> from within a signal handler? Is the resulting behavior safe and
- > well-defined,
- > >> or is it undefined or implementation-dependent?
- > >>
- >
- > Again, I wonder why this passed the moderation ...
- >
- > signal handlers is a C++ issue ? come on ...
-
- Maybe it's time for another discussion about revising the moderation
- policy. I suggest that anyone who is interested in such a discussion
- send mail to std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu, though: it doesn't really
- belong in this group.
-
- Under the current policy, at least, we almost always accept articles
- asking whether the standard says anything about a subject. There are
- limits, but an article like that would have to get pretty outlandish
- before we'd reject it. I don't think it's ridiculous to wonder
- whether the C++ standard says anything about signals or threads, or
- whether it should; some languages, after all, do address those issues
- specifically. C++ simply doesn't happen to be one of them.
-
- At present, the moderation policy (http://dogbert.lbl.gov/~matt/std-c++)
- doesn't have any absolute prohibition against FAQs or against
- questions that could easily be answered by reading the draft standard.
- Perhaps it should. (Although there's always the question of just
- where to draw the line...) I'd be interested in hearing people's
- comments on this issue. Again, though, please email those comments to
- std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu.
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- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. Submission address: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu.
- Contact address: std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu. The moderation policy
- is summarized in http://dogbert.lbl.gov/~matt/std-c++/policy.html. ]
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