Google's Go & Exceptions

[John D]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> John D wrote:
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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>>> John D wrote:
>>>> Commonly called "2 step construction". But you forgot to add the 
>>>> check on the return val from c.create().
>>> No need to - c.create() should throw if it fails.
>>>
>>
>> What's the point of doing 2-step construction if not to avoid 
>> exceptions?
>
> It's so the default initialization cannot fail, which is handy in cases 
> where dealing with failure is problematic.

Pffft.  Said the backend compiler writer. So let it be written.