Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: newbie question: exceptions Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:07:22 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: <8636hzcb91.fsf@mailhub.linuxsc.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="938936979bf6115e9d0086b39ae6a6d8"; logging-data="27758"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18YM3oYhdfu1BWsWb2NE1sb4QsE0JogWzw=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UCMIClMmGiMFDf9D07icaq6CBoA= sha1:QaIBO9lc2j5QoiAWwLKP95DqNYc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:67723 Tiib writes: > On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:38:34 UTC+3, Jivanmukta wrote: > [...] > >> Does it make sense to code: >> >> MyClass *myObj = MyClass(); > > No. It is usually syntax error, In most cases a diagnostic is required, but assuming MyClass is a class (or struct), and there is no funny preprocessor stuff going on, it is never a syntax error.