Re: several input-output questions

From:
 Jess <wdfcj@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:25:30 -0700
Message-ID:
<1182090330.400163.254020@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 17, 11:44 pm, Obnoxious User <O...@127.0.0.1> wrote:

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:52:21 -0700, Jess wrote:

I see my problems now, thanks!

On the other hand, in program

copy(istream_iterator<string> (in), istream_iterator<string>(),
back_inserter(v));

Does it convert "in" to an istream_iterator<string>? If so, what is
"istream_iterator<string>()"? Neither of them looks like a function
call or constructing an istream_iterator<string> object...

Jess


'istream_iterator<string>(in)' creates a temporary object based on 'in'
'istream_iterator<string>()' creates a temporary object representing the
end iterator.
'back_inserter(v)' creates a temporary object
Consider:

class T {};

T t = T();


I'm sometimes confused by the object creation syntax. To create an
object t of type T, I think I can use the following statements.

T t; //default constructor
T t(arg); //constructor with argument arg
T t = T(); //call default constructor for T()? then call copy
constructor to create t using the temporary object created from T()
T t = T(arg); //does the right hand side call the constructor with
argument arg, then call the copy constructor to get t?
T t = existing_t_object;
T* tp = new T; //call default constructor
T* tp = new T(arg); //constructor with argument arg

Are they correct? Have I missed something?

Thanks,
Jess

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