"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:hjo5t3$2dq...@digitalmars.com... > Ary Borenszweig wrote: >> auto x = new BigInt(someString); >> >> How do you implement BigInt's constructor without being able to throw an >> exception? > > > I presume you mean how can it work without allocating memory. In D, a > memory allocation failure is generally not a recoverable exception, it's a > fatal exception. > > A better example would be one that attempted to open a file in the > constructor.
I think he meant that passing it something like "Hello, Fred." should be disallowed.
