Slightly Misleading Example?

From:
NULL@NULL.NULL ("Tom1s")
Newsgroups:
comp.std.c++
Date:
Wed, 10 May 2006 21:56:08 GMT
Message-ID:
<Jyq8g.9021$j7.305308@news.indigo.ie>
On page 22 of the Standard, it gives the following example of a structure=
:

struct C {
    string s; // string is the standard library class (clause 21)
};

And then it goes on to say that this is equivalent to:

struct C {
    string s;

    C(): s() { }

    C(const C& x): s(x.s) { }

    C& operator=(const C& x) { s = x.s; return *this; }

    =98C() { }
};

While this is true, I think it's misleading as the example only works
because "s" is a user-defined class which has a constructor. I think it'd=
 be
better to change the constructor definition to:

    C() {}

This is "more correct" because it now works with a primitive type, e.g.:

struct C {
    int s;
};

struct C {
    int s;

    C() { } /* s doesn't get default initialised */

    C(const C& x): s(x.s) { }

    C& operator=(const C& x) { s = x.s; return *this; }

    =98C() { }
};

-Tom=E1s

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