Google's Go & Exceptions

[Nick Sabalausky]

"John D" <jdean at googling.com> wrote in message 
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> "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().
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>> No need to - c.create() should throw if it fails.
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> What's the point of doing 2-step construction if not to avoid exceptions?
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To avoid having a constructor that throws exceptions...Although I still fail 
to see how it's useful to avoid that in D.