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Constructors was a mistake. Stupid and simple initialisation like Rust and Go is the way to go forward.
by kajaktum 4y ago
Constructors was a mistake. Stupid and simple initialisation like Rust and Go is the way to go forward.
- JonChesterfield 4y agoConstructors induced exceptions, and once we have exceptions they became the failure reporting mechanism of the standard library, leaving us with goto-some-other-function-using-dynamic-scope as one of the foundation blocks of the language. Thus constructors are a reasonable contender for the worst design mistake in C++.