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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Safety of the Booch Ada 95 Components
Date: 1999/12/10
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"Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org> writes:
> I don't understand your comment about not being "exception-safe."
> Perhaps you could elaborate on that point.

In C++, class objects are copied through a class method called the
copy-constructor, to allow for resource control. If an exception is
thrown during copy-construction of one of the elements, it's possible
that the target data structure may be left in an invalid state.