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### Exceptions

Exceptions are used when there is a danger of a runaway or illegal operations on an empty list.

The key example is to take the length of a non-terminating list, e.g.

    length(enum_from(1))

This is protected using an exception:

    lazy_exception

Note that this is implemented such that defining

    BOOST_PHOENIX_NO_LAZY_EXCEPTIONS

will enable the user to turn off the exceptions at their own risk.

    BOOST_PHOENIX_FUNCTION_MAX_LAZY_LIST_LENGTH

is currently defined as 1000 and again the user can define their own value.

In the length function this how it is implemented:

            struct Length {
              template <typename Sig> struct result;

              template <typename This, typename L>
              struct result<This(L)>
              {
                 typedef size_t type;
              };

              template <class L>
              size_t operator()( const L& ll ) const {
                typename L::delay_result_type l = delay(ll);
                size_t x = 0;
                while( !null(l)() ) {
                    l = tail(l);
                    ++x;
                    if (x > BOOST_PHOENIX_FUNCTION_MAX_LAZY_LIST_LENGTH)
                       break;
                }
    #ifndef BOOST_PHOENIX_NO_LAZY_EXCEPTIONS
                if (x > BOOST_PHOENIX_FUNCTION_MAX_LAZY_LIST_LENGTH)
                     throw lazy_exception("Your list is too long!!");
    #endif
                return x;
              }
            };