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From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Constructor question
Message-ID: <20164@alice.att.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 02:41:17 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.110623.22219@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
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In article <1991Apr2.110623.22219@and.cs.liv.ac.uk> markr@and.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:

> Can I call one constructor to class X explicitly from within another
> constructor to class X ?

No.

> Example: constructor X::X( int i ) performs a lot of initialisation that needs
> to be done at the start of X::X( char *c ) too.  Can I write:

> X::X( char *c ) {
> 	X( 5 );
> 	// rest of stuff

Do it this way:

	class X {
	private:
		common_stuff() { /* ... */ }
	public:
		X(int i) { common_stuff(); /* other stuff */ }
		X(char* c) { common_stuff(); /* other stuff */ }
		// and so on
	};
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com