Are you planning to implement a "real" pthread_refcount_t for, say, Windows
and Linux/x86?
Who? Me?
No, I no nothing about any of this (as I've just demonstrated), it just
seemed from your "Maybe one day we'll have a pthread_refcount_t"
statement that things could be improved if one existed - so
So it sounds to me like the :blat is *not* part of the extension. It
sounds like the NT file name is made up of three parts: name, extension
and "stream".
In which case I think it is fine to have functions extension() and
change_extension() - they just should not report or modify the stream par
(long post)
After some thought, I'll broaden my response by (kind of) developing an
exception use strategy that gives me what I want and addresses (a
little) the "user messages vs debugging" question.
Let's start with a "use-case" model of a system (system might be an
application, server, libra
Hello everyone,
A quick note to let you know I hadn't forgotten about my post...
I finally got some time to get back to this - thanks to Russell,
Alisdair, Thomas, Darren, Greg, Brian, Gennaro for your replies.
At the moment I'm still trying to digest all the info posted (including
the referen
As a software user I am frequently frustrated by "an error occurred"
like failure messages. As a developer I know that the software *knows*
exactly what failed, why, and exactly what it was doing at the time, but
doesn't pass any of this information on.
Recently I developed some C++ where for the f
