Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!taumet!steve
From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Who's RIght? ZTC & GNU or SUN?
Message-ID: <486@taumet.com>
Date: 20 Oct 90 15:16:27 GMT
References: <690@vermont.UUCP>
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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jeffrey@vermont.UUCP (Jeffrey Greenberg) writes:

|zortech c++ 2.1 and gnu c++ compile the following code, which I
|believe is correct.  However, the sun c++ 2.0 gives the error:
|        "cannot initialize ::x with initializer list"

|class dog {
|private:
|    int x;
|};
|dog x[4] = { 1,2,3,4 };

According to E&S, an aggregate type may not be initialized in this
way if it contains private or protected members, among other things.
The idea is that C-like structures can still be initialized in the C
way, but once the aggregate looks like a C++ class, you can't do it.
-- 

Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com