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2024-12-19

211. Constructors should not be allowed to return normally after an exception

Section: Clause 14  [except]     Status: NAD     Submitter: Bruce Mellows     Date: 8 Mar 2000

The grammar should be changed so that constructor function-try-blocks must end with a throw-expression.

Rationale (04/00):

No change is needed. It is already the case that flowing off the end of a function-try-block of a constructor rethrows the exception, and return statements are prohibited in constructor function-try-blocks (14.4 [except.handle] paragraphs 15-16.