Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, March 09, 2012 21:54:28 Walter Bright wrote:
> > Deprecating exception specifications :o).
> 
> I don't think that broke any existing code, because there wasn't any :-)

Sadly, there's code that will break because of that where _I_ work. For a 
while, they were recommended/required, because some of the people dictating 
coding standards didn't understand them properly. Fortunately, much of the 
newer code doesn't use them, but there's still plenty that does. I think that 
it stems primarily from Java programmers expecting them to work as checked 
exceptions and not realizing how they really work. The only thing that will 
likely stop code from breaking where I work due to the deprecation of 
exception specifications is the fact that it'll be years before we use C++11, 
and it'll probably only be newer projects that get compiled that way when it 
_does_ finally happen.

- Jonathan M Davis