On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 05:55:01PM -0700, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Karl Tomlinson <mozn...@karlt.net> wrote: > > but I don't see much advantage of public constructors over > > something like > > > > static already_AddRefed<Foo> Foo::Create() > > > > or > > > > static nsRefPtr<Foo> Foo::Make() > > Fair enough. Though it is somewhat more boilerplate in the class > itself. But maybe not enough to be a concern. > > > Constructors also have the potentially awkward feature of never > > failing, and hence the abundance of separate Init() methods. > > Technically you can make the ctor take an nsresult out argument. I > think we have a few classes that do that.
That's quite horrible to read and write, though. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
