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From: ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Toolkit for Open Look *and* OSF/Motif Look and Feel
Message-ID: <100920297@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 16:30:49 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> How do you signal a failure when using a constructor? ...

Lotsa' ways.  It is just a procedure after all.  An approach most like
OL would be to have the constructor turn around and call another
constructor, error check, and return.  Or, you could error check inline
in your cronstructor.  Neat exception handling is supposed to be in the
works for C++, and then there are even more options.

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