KK>    You can take advantage of this by using try and catch.
 KK>       try
 KK>       {
 KK>          PlayerClass *Player = new PlayerClass;
 KK>          return Player;
 KK>       }
 KK>       catch
er, catch what?
catch(XAlloc& xa)
{
  cout << "Error allocating player:" << endl;
  cout << xa << endl;
  //...
I can't actually remember the exception type that new returns, though.  :-)
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