From: I V <ivlenin@...>
Date: 2010-01-08T20:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby constructor return value?

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:13:30 -0500, Thom Wharton wrote:
> Basically, I am trying to get new to return nil if construction of the
> object fails.  I have a strong background in C++ coding, and one thing
> that has always irked me about the language is that constructors cant
> fail -- the object is always created regardless of whether or not it can
> be properly constructed.

I'm not sure what you mean here. In both C++ and Ruby, constructors can 
fail - they do so by raising an exception - and, if they do fail, no 
object is created.