Google's Go & Exceptions

[Walter Bright]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> auto x = new BigInt(someString);
> 
> How do you implement BigInt's constructor without being able to throw an 
> exception?


I presume you mean how can it work without allocating memory. In D, a 
memory allocation failure is generally not a recoverable exception, it's 
a fatal exception.

A better example would be one that attempted to open a file in the 
constructor.