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		throwaway7808 on Nov 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C Legacy Is Evil At least in C your initialization functions are first class citizens. Not like in that messed-up language, in which a constructor just should not fail...

thegeomaster on Nov 4, 2014 [–]

What do you mean by "a constructor just should not fail?" Constructors can and do fail in C++.

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