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From: sarima@gryphon.COM (Stan Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: constructor calls constructor?
Keywords: constructors, this
Message-ID: <16224@gryphon.COM>
Date: 28 May 89 16:19:23 GMT
References: <601@rna.UUCP>
Reply-To: sarima@gryphon.COM (Stan Friesen)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <601@rna.UUCP> kc@rna.UUCP (Kaare Christian) writes:
>A question, if you please.
>
>I have a class that has several constructors.
>[Examples deleted]
>All of these constructors have some mundane chores that must be accomplished,
>plus there are extra chores for those that take extra arguments. What I tried
>to do was have the "parameter taking" constructors all call the
>parameterless constructor.
>
>This didn't work, the call to X() created a new object, it didn't
>initialize the current object. 
>
>>[Other failed approach deleted]
>Is there a way for one constructor to call another, simply to have
>some chores performed, while avoiding real construction? (I know I can
>have all the constructors call some helper function, but that
>seems too roundabout.)
>
	What's so round-about in using a helper function?   Especially
since the helper can be made a private function, used only in constructors?
It is also quite readable.
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