Re: is such exception handling approach good?

it is normally not a good idea to do operations in the ctor that could
cause an exception. the reason for this is that if an exception is
ever thrown in your ctor you end up with an invalid object. therefore
it is better to have some other method to initialize such with and
handle a failure outside the ctor like bool init() or something.

That's completely false as Alex stated.


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