I don't get it. Exceptions are bad -> don't use exceptions. Constructors can fail with exceptions -> use a factory pattern and handle errors explicitly. Dest

I don't get it. Exceptions are bad -> don't use exceptions. Constructors can fail with exceptions -> use a factory pattern and handle errors explicitly. Destructors can't fail: right, so don't, and yes, if you need to do finalization that could fail then that has to be explicit (as in C) and you can handle errors there, and yes, that leaves you with half-destructed objects, but so what. No, I think high-level static data typing is very important. Today Rust would be a better language than C++ for this, but C++ is still better than C.