Think twice before raising exception in constructor

[DP News-Robot]

Recently prolific Delphi writer Nick Hodges declared a war on the use of nil pointers. It is arguable whether nil pointers usage is bad or not, but the point is the “Guard Pattern” proposed is really an antipattern. Here is a simple demo: program Project11; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} uses ...http://www.delphipraxis.net//feeds.f...~4/5d3P-FB4dYo

More...