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From: dove@joker.uucp (Webster &)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Chameleon objects (calling virtual functions from constructors)
Message-ID: <DOVE.89Dec16175211@joker.uucp>
Date: 16 Dec 89 22:52:11 GMT
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In-reply-to: roger@procase.UUCP's message of 7 Dec 89 09:01:00 GMT

In article <47479d37.12160@espol> roger@procase.UUCP (Roger H. Scott) writes:

   From: roger@procase.UUCP (Roger H. Scott)
   Subject: Re: Chameleon objects (calling virtual functions from constructors)
   Date: 7 Dec 89 09:01:00 GMT

   Perhaps what is needed here is a "finalization" function that is automatically
   invoked by the compiler immediately after normal construction of an object.
   The programmer could declare this function to be virtual in the base class
   and then redefine it in derived classes to "finalize" the object in the
   appropriate way(s).

Yes Please!!  We should have a means of automatically performing
"final integration" of objects after construction is complete.
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