Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!netcom!teda!ditka!mcdchg!tellab5!balr!clrcom!rmartin
From: rmartin@clear.com (Bob Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Array of class objects
Keywords: array, initialization, class objects
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.160837.7491@clear.com>
Date: 6 Dec 90 16:08:37 GMT
References: <1756@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> <1990Nov15.050358.16043@clear.com> <59511@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: Clear Communications, Inc.
Lines: 27

In article <59511@microsoft.UUCP> jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes:
>In article <1990Nov15.050358.16043@clear.com> rmartin@clear.com (Bob Martin) writes:
>|I'll take a stab at answering this.  My manual (which happens to be
>|the version of the ARM published by SUN) says in 12.1 that:
>|
>|	"A default constructor for a class X is a constructor of the
>|	form X::X().  A default constructor will not be generated for
>|	a class X if any constructor has been declared for class X.
>
>ACK!  *My* manual [...] *the* version of ARM says:
>	"A default constructor for a class X is a constructor of class
>	X that can be called without an argument.
>
>Please do not quote an individual vendor's reference manuals as being
>"the" facts on C++.  [There is no ARM except *the* ARM.  Get it.  :-]

Sorry, point taken.  *the* ARM says in 12.1:
	
	A default constructor is typically of the form X::X() [...]
	A default contructor will be generated for a class X only if
	no constructor has been declared for class X.

-- 
+-Robert C. Martin-----+:RRR:::CCC:M:::::M:| Nobody is responsible for |
| rmartin@clear.com    |:R::R:C::::M:M:M:M:| my words but me.  I want  |
| uunet!clrcom!rmartin |:RRR::C::::M::M::M:| all the credit, and all   |
+----------------------+:R::R::CCC:M:::::M:| the blame.  So there.     |