Google's Go & Exceptions

[Walter Bright]

dsimcha wrote:
> I've never understood the recommendation not to put complex logic in the
> constructor.

Complex logic is fine, just logic that cannot fail.

> If you need complex logic to establish the class's invariant, or
> need to initialize complicated immutable data structures, where else is that logic
> supposed to go?

For example, allocating resources that might fail, can be done with a 
separate initialization function:

auto c = new Class;
c.create();