Constructor Failures
Sometimes we fail to acquire a needed resource or responsibility during the construction of an object. Sometimes the construction of a subobject fails. How can we deal with an incompletely […]
January 2016
Avoid Invalid State
Have you seen classes with a method isValid() or something similar? You most definitely have seen and even used such classes. Maybe you have even written such a method yourself. […]
C++ Object Lifetimes
Some of the most surprising bugs I have come across happened when someone (often enough myself) accessed an object outside of its lifetime. There are some pitfalls, common misunderstandings and […]
Modern C++ Features – keyword `noexcept`
I have written about handling exceptions some time ago, and about the levels of exception safety last week. What I have not touched yet are exception specifications. I will catch […]