Google's Go & Exceptions

[Nick Sabalausky]

"John D" <jdean at googling.com> wrote in message 
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> "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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>> "John D" <jdean at googling.com> wrote in message 
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>>> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
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>>>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Still within the context of this D BigInt example, what benefit does 
>>>>> using a factory method provide over a throwing constructor?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've always seen factories as falling into one of two categories: 1. A 
>>>>> hack to get around a limitation in a language's constructor feature. 
>>>>> or 2. Part of a helper API (I guess the kids are calling those 
>>>>> "facades" these days...) for pre-configuring a new instance in a 
>>>>> commonly-useful, but non-default way.
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>>>> Factories are mostly (imho) important in the fourth scenario: when you 
>>>> want to create an object from data.
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>>> I vote for #3: Factories are most important for getting interfaces out 
>>> of dynamic libraries.
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>> Can you elaborate on this?
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> I can. But I shouldn't have to. So shut up.

I see we have another superdan on our hands. If it even is another...This 
screwball did show up around the time superdan disappeared.