From: Christian Kruse <ckruse@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T20:40:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Test the result of an initialization ?

Hoi,

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:31:32 +0900 jayce@mosx.net (Jayce Piel) wrote:

> Is there a simple way to know if there were an error in the initialize
> method ?
> 
> Example :
> I have a class "ArchiveFile".
> Its initialize method have a 'path' parameter.
> 
> What I want is if the path is not a path to a file, the object is not
> created. I try to do a "return nil" in initialize, but it has no
> effect.

I think, you want to cast an exception and catch it in the
initialization.


> Do I need to test the file outside of the initialization ?

No, of course not.

Greets,
 CK