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From: rlb@polari.UUCP (rlb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: unary-expression syntax
Keywords: new,initializer,C++
Message-ID: <458@polari.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 88 01:00:42 GMT
Organization: Polarserv, Seattle WA
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In Stroustrup's book, section 7.2 of the reference manual contains:
    unary-expression:
        ...
        new type-name initializer.opt
        ...

which implies that you can say things like:
    int *x = new int = 47;
However, the more detailed explanation of free store in section 7.2.4 contains
the sentence "An initializer may be supplied for certain class objects".  This
sentence seems to imply that an initializer may not be applied for other cases.
I could not immediately find any examples elsewhere that showed that
"initializer" could be other than "( expression-list )" for the "new" operator.
Can anyone point me to such examples or something else in the manual that makes
this clear?
-Ron Burk
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