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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: object initialization syntax
Keywords: objects initialization syntax aggregates
Message-ID: <366@taumet.com>
Date: 31 Jul 90 16:49:10 GMT
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Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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root@wotk.UUCP writes:

>I'm curious why the following syntax was chosen for initializing an instance
>of a class -
>MyClass X(1,2,3,);
>instead of the syntax used in C aggregate data types -
>MyStruct X = {1,2,3};

The latter syntax says the first element gets 1, the second gets 2, etc.
For an ordinary (non-class) aggregate type, this is still valid in C++.

But there is no requirement that the parameters to a constructor bear
any relationship whatever to the data members of a class.  Using
data-aggregate initialization syntax to call a function would seem to
me to be confusing and non-intuitive.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com