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From: schmidt@siam.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Calling constructors explicitly
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Date: 23 Feb 89 21:00:56 GMT
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Reply-To: Doug Schmidt <schmidt@siam.ics.uci.edu>
Organization: University of California at Irvine: ICS Dept.
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  In the following short C++ program the constructor for class foo  
is explicitly called as a member function.  However, when compiling
this with cfront 1.2.1 the translator complains that:

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CC  test.c:
"test.c", line 14: error:  foo is undefined
1 error
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Apparently, cfront 2.0 also exhibits the same behavior.  Would someone
please tell me whether this is a bug or a feature, i.e., is it part of
the language definition that constructors must not be called
explicitly?

   thank you,
   
       Doug Schmidt                        

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int printf (char *, ...);

class foo 
{
 public:
  static foo () { printf ("hello world\n"); }
  
};

main () 
{
  foo bar;

  bar.foo ();
}
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