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From: pcb@usl.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Initializer in C++
Keywords: constructor, operator=
Message-ID: <668@usl.usl.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 89 01:39:10 GMT
Organization: CACS, Lafayette, LA, USA
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In standard C we have the ability to initialize arrays such as:
  
   int x[] = {1,2,3};
and
   static int x[2][3] = {{1,2,3},{4,5,6}};
etc...

I would like to have a class such as ARRAY (actually matrix) that
takes initializers...
   ARRAY x(2,3)={{1,2,3},{4,5,6}};

So the construct would?? be someting like:
   ARRAY (int r, int c)
   {
      allocate the buf to be r by c...
   }
And now I guess the operator= would be:
   void operator=(int *s)
    {
     now loop through and let each buf[i][j] = *s
      and then s++
    }
This is as close as I have come, however it doesn't work, the operator=
never gets called.  Maybe the constructor should take another parameter???

Does anyone have an idea?  
Thanks in advance.

pcb@usl.usl.edu