Re: wonder about constructors?
In message <e5u8pg$62d$03$1@news.t-online.com>, Rolf Magnus
<ramagnus@t-online.de> writes
Salt_Peter wrote:
"Tom" <t@please.noemail> wrote in message
news:01c68751$fb7cd200$0b01a8c0@n56l987...
| I was reading Bjourne's book and wonder about constructors?
|
| If I have a class
|
| template<class T> class Vector {
| public:
| explicit Vector(size_t n);
| }
semicolon missing
|
| Does a default constructor get generated by the compiler?
No, but whats preventing you from providing one? Why should the compiler
be allowed to guess about your needs and requirements?
Because it does that too if you don't define your own constructor.
Same goes for both the copy ctor and the assignment operator as well.
They are different. The default constructor won't be generated by the
compiler if you define _any_ constructor. The others will _always_ be
there, no matter what you define or don't define.
Moreover, whenever it makes sense semantically it's _better_ to let the
compiler generate them than do it yourself, since the compiler won't
forget to initialise or assign every member, but the programmer might.
#include <vector>
template< typename T >
class Vector
{
std::vector< T > vt;
public:
Vector() : vt() { }
Pointless.
Vector(unsigned sz) : vt(sz) { }
What if std::vector::size_type is larger than unsigned?
Pointless.
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