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From: roger@procase.UUCP (Roger H. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Need `set before used' warning
Keywords: c++, warning
Message-ID: <195@c.procase.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 90 23:40:59 GMT
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Reply-To: roger@procase.UUCP (Roger H. Scott)
Organization: proCASE Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
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I would like to reinforce the suggestion that *all* class members be
*initialized* in constructors using *initialization* (not assignment) syntax.
While this is not always possible (due to the need to do non-trivial
computation in order to generate the actual member values), it often possible.
I find that many of my constructors have empty "{}" bodies, since all they
do is initialize members and subclasses.