[Exceptional C++ Style] Item 12: Exception Safety: Is it Wort hit?

[Kevlin Henney]

In message <00b801c4d914$ad53f370$6800a8c0 at paul>, Paul Grenyer 
<paul at paulgrenyer.co.uk> writes
>
>This is a matter of opinion. I personally like to clean up properly, 
>even when an application has failed. Kevlin and I had a disagreement a 
>few weeks back (on accu-general I think??) about whether failed unit 
>tests should clear up properly. I think they should...

It depends on the scope of the failure. In this particular, IIRC, I 
recoiled from the coding hoops you had jumped through to deal with the 
specific corner case. The effort was not worth the return on investment 
in test complication: the stable ordering that required no resource 
holding objects or external library dependencies satisfied both our 
concerns :-)

Kevlin
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