Re: [boost] Re: 3-state boolean type

From: William E. Kempf (williamkempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-02 12:43:34

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jurko" <Jurko_at_[hidden]>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 10:37 AM
Subject: [boost] Re: 3-state boolean type

> > That depends on what you mean here.
> >
> > bool b;
> >
> > This doesn't initialize the value for b, and thus would (fuzzily)
suggest
> > what you're saying.  However, this:
> >
> > bool b();
> >
> > initializes b to false.  So I'd think the  default ctor should
initialize
> > the state to false.
>
> Hmmm does this really initialize b to false? Doesn't this declare a
function
> called b taking no parameters and returning a bool value?
>
> Tried it out on BCB5 which said that it was a function declaration.

Sorry, yes, I get bit constantly by this syntactic quirk.  I should know
better by now.  But what I said still applies.  Built in types are zero
initialized when you explicitly initialize them.

Bill Kempf