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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Initializing a Member That is a Class
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Date: 4 Feb 91 21:12:37 GMT
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steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes (I wrote):

>Given
>	class A { public: A(int, int, int); };
>	class B { A a; B(int, int, int); };

>you would write, for example:

>	B::B(int i, int j, int k) : A(i, j, k) { ... }

>This is the same way you pass arguements to base class constructors.

OOPS.  I meant to say

	B::B(int i, int j, int k) : a(i, j, k)

If A were a base class of B, you could invoke its constructor as A(i, j, k),
using the name of the class.  For a data member, you use the name of the
member, not its type, in the header.

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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com