Best practices when using constructors – Redefined
In an older post, I suggested that constructors never should call methods, which possibly can throw exceptions. What also that blog entry explained, is that this idea mainly came from unmanaged languages like C++, where you could easily introduce memory leaks when a constructor throws an exception.
I however came back from that idea, since it also pollutes a lot of your code having to have initialization methods. You add hereby a unspoken contract that, after calling the constructor, you have to call the initialization method in order to use the class properly.
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