Catching exceptions from a constructor’s initializer list

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Edit: After more digging, these are called “Function try blocks”.

I confess I didn’t know this either until I went looking. You learn something every day! I don’t know if this is an indictment of how little I get to use C++ these days, my lack of C++ knowledge, or the often Byzantine features that litter the language. Ah well – I still like it 🙂

To ensure people don’t have to jump to another site, the syntax of a function try block for constructors turns out to be:

C::C()
try : init1(), ..., initn()
{
  // Constructor
}
catch(...)
{
  // Handle exception
}

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