Re: Are throwing default constructors bad style, and if so, why?
In article <gavlks$qp1$1@news.datemas.de>,
Gerhard Menzl <clcppm-poster@this.is.invalid> wrote:
As soon as you want to use
Something, you will trigger the delayed operation, and then you have to
be prepared for exceptions anyway.
But the place where I use the deque is different than the place where I
declare it.
It doesn't take an expert to expect an insert to possibly throw an
exception. It does take an expert to expect that an empty deque might
throw an exception.
Before I told you, did you honestly expect that an empty deque, unlike
every other STL container, could throw an exception?
This also has performance implications. If one has a FIFO data
structure that might be empty most of the time, std::list can
unintuitively be a better choice.
This is why people think of C++ as an expert only language...
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