From 4529178175302700066 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,55e1f95e6a02519c X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,55e1f95e6a02519c X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: mikey@mcs.com Subject: Re: Function try blocks Date: 1995/05/22 Message-ID: <3ppaj7$9v5@News1.mcs.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 103027364 references: <3pmpr2$nol@Mars.mcs.com> organization: Fen Software, Inc. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.std.c++,comp.lang.c++ In article , smeyers@netcom.com says... > >| address_ and phones_ are both pointers; you can safely assign them to NULL >| in ctors. The constructor body should take care of allocation. NULL > >You you can't: they're const pointers in the original posting. The only >way to give them a value is in a member init list. And if an exception is >thrown during their initialization, you can't safely delete them. > --------------- Hmmm. So they are. Just the same, I know no other way to safely destroy them when an exception gets thrown. You can cast away const-ness in the constructor body, or you might re-evaluate the need for const on the private copy. Mike.