Re: [ALACPP] A bug in boost.

[Christopher Smith <x@xxxxxxxx>]

Mohammed Iqbal wrote:
> Hi
>
> Although Boost libraries developed by some C++ masters, some of them fell
> into simple bugs that beginners fell in. Look at this function in the python
> library:
>
> template <class Key, class Value>
> void setitem(object const& target, Key const& key, Value
> const& value)
> {
>     return setitem(target, object(key), object(value));
> }
>
> The problem here is that void functions won't return anything. The function
> is very simple and small. Then how did the author fall into this bug???

Probably because the function signature changed. Easy syntactical 
mistakes like this are made by everyone. That's why God invented 
compilers. ;-)

--Chris
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