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Document number: N4002

Date: 2014-05-21

Cleaning‐up noexcept in the Library

by Nicolai Josuttis

Excerpt:

With N3279 we introduced some guidelines for how to use noexcept in the C++ Standard Library. However, after some years of experience, we learned that we have to

• Improve these guidelines
• Fix places where we agree that according to the old and new guidelines things are, or may be a problem
• Discuss and decide whether (or not) to fix issues upon which we have no clear opinion