is throwing exception from a constructor not a good practice ?

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is throwing exception from a constructor not a good practice ?..

Answer / vikas sood

throwing exception from a constructor is not bad at all. It
is actually advised to use exceptions when you fail to
create your object properly due to any reason. In this case
memory will not be allocated for the object and no
destructor will be called.

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is throwing exception from a constructor not a good practice ?..

Answer / manjunath

Throwing a exception from constructor is perfectly good
habit. That is how to handle errors in the constructor.
Smart pointers can also be used in this scenario.

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is throwing exception from a constructor not a good practice ?..

Answer / dps

ya its better i think because it will take less memory and
less time

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is throwing exception from a constructor not a good practice ?..

Answer / shwetha.v.g

Actualy though when an object is created memory will b
allocated but the process of allocation of memory will be
complete only if conytructor is successfully invoked so if
constructor throws an exception memory will not be
allocated for that object.

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is throwing exception from a constructor not a good practice ?..

Answer / saranya

yes, because constructor does not throws an exception

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 8 No

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